Reference9:Concept Innovaphone Virtual Appliance
Applies To
This information applies to:
- V9
- innovaphone Virtual Appliance
- Intel/AMD CPUs
- VMware
- Workstation 7.1
- Player 3.x [1]
- ESX 4.x
More Information
The innovaphone Virtual Appliance (IPVA) is a virtual machine to be run on a virtualization platform. Whereby, VMware[2] is is the solely supported virtualization platform to-date
The IPVA is a software-only solution. It appears as and performs as an innovaphone "hard-box" excluding DSP-, ISDN-/AB-resources.
The following core-components are contained within the IPVA:
- innovaphone PBX
- innovaphone Gateway (a.k.a Relay)
- integrated mass-storage (alike innovaphones' CF-card support)
Limitations
The IPVA cannot terminate conferences. As of today the required DSP-resource is not emulated.
Configuration
Download the IPVA. The IPVA is a directory containing:
- ipva.vmx: The virtual machine configuration file
- hd-boot.vmdk: The virtual boot harddisk (hd)
- hd-cf.vmdk: The hd for emulation of a Compact Flash card
- hd-flash.vmdk: The hd for emulation of flash memory
- hd-dump.vmdk: The hd serving as a store for a crash dump
VMware Player/Workstation
- Copy the IPVA to e.g. your desktop
- Double-click on ipva.vmx
The IPVA is going to be started.
A shortcut (*.lnk file) to the vmx-file will start the IPVA without additional user interaction. Such a shortcut may also be copied into the Windows Autostart program folder, in order to have the IPVA started automatically on windows startup.
Network Configuration
Currently as DHCP client only. I.e. a DHCP server must be available.
License Configuration
The licensing procedure is the same as for other innovaphone products, except for one peculiarity: The MAC address, generated by VMware, may have been assigned already to another customer/installation. Such a conflict must be settled manually as explained below.
If, while generating licenses within my.innovaphone.com, a message (My_Innovaphone#IP-VA_MAC_exists) is displayed:
IP-VA MAC exists
then a new MAC address must be assigned manually to the affected installation.
In order to assign a new MAC address:
- Power-off the virtual machine
- Open the file ipva.vmx for editing within a text editor.
- Edit the last 3 hex-values of the lines starting with ethernet0.generatedAddress & uuid.bios from e.g.
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:f4:c6:d9" uuid.bios = "56 4d 64 b9 52 ce 38 57-66 29 e8 f2 77 f4 c6 d9"
into e.g
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:f4:c6:da" uuid.bios = "56 4d 64 b9 52 ce 38 57-66 29 e8 f2 77 f4 c6 da"
(Note: in this example just the very last hex-value d9 is going to be altered into da)
- Within my.innovaphone.com try once again to generate licenses for the virtual machine.
Download
http://download.innovaphone.com/ice/download/p/published/Firmware%20Version%209/
Troubleshooting
A new option has been added to Admistration/Diagnostics/Tracing. The option trace(crash-dump) is going to read a post-mortem log from hd-dump.vmdk, if available.
Known Issues
ESX 3.x is unsupported
The IPVA does not run under ESX 3.x and below, since virtual IDE disks aren't supported.
FAQ
Are Firmware Updates Possible?
Yes, alike the well-known *.bin firmware files for other innovaphone products (ip6000.bin, ip2000.bin,..) , there's a similar bin-file (ipva.bin) for the IPVA. The file is contained on the boot-hd and can be found by browsing to e.g. http://192.168.0.5/drive/HD-BOOT . The versioning of ipva.bin is the same as for the other products. The firmware file may exactly be uploaded as for other products:
- by Upload/Firmware
- by Upload/Dram
- by a script for the innovaphone Update Process
How Is The Network Connection Being Handled?
The network connection is pre-configured to: Bridged: Connected directly to the physical network
What Is The Size Of the Emulated CompactFlash?
1GB
Can The Emulated CompactFlash Be Increased In Size?
Yes, from within the Edit Virtual Machine dialog. Doing so just increases the size of the virtual harddisk. The emulated CompactFlash must be formatted afterwards and accordingly to benefit from the increased size. That step can be administrated from Administration/Compact Flash/Format. Note: This entire procedure is untested. A recommendation for an upper size limit is not given.
Notes
- ↑ VMware Player Download(free): http://vmware.com/download/player/
- ↑ http://www.vmware.com