Create and Deploy on VMware®

This section provides detail on deploying Oracle Communications Session Delivery products over the ESXI hypervisor and assumes VMware 6. The section also assumes the user understands deployment in these environments and that the majority of deployment tasks, from hardware installation and startup to VM resource and management setup, is complete.

For information on VMware 6, which is also supported, refer to the following link.

https://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-6-pubs.html

Before You Begin:

• Confirm that the VMware version 6 Hypervisor is installed on an appropriate network server.
• Confirm that the server has 40GB of space for this installation.

Note:

The following procedure describes a typical deployment. The system may display different screens, depending on the deployment.

Detail on Oracle Communications Session Delivery product-specific setup steps is shown below.

1. From the VMWare ESXi Host page, click Create/Register VM.
2. On the Select Creation Type screen, select Deploy a virtual machine from an OVF or OVA file and click Next.
3. On the Select OVF and VMDK Files screen:
   1. Enter a name for the virtual machine.
   2. Browse to a target .ova file.
   3. Click Next.
4. On the Select Storage screen, click Next.
5. On the License Agreements screen, click I agree and click Next.
6. On the Deployment Options screen:
   1. Map the networks used in this template to networks in your inventory.
      The SBC enumerates and binds network interfaces in the order presented by the hypervisor to the virtual machine. If 3 or less interfaces are presented, the bind order is wancom0, s0p0, s1p0. If more than 3 interfaces are presented, the bind order is:

      1. wancom0
      2. wancom1
      3. wancom2
      4. spare
      5. s0p0
      6. s1p0
      7. s0p1
      8. s1p1

      If your hypervisor randomly allocates addresses for network interfaces, the interface order at the hypervisor does not necessarily match that at the SBC. You can use the interface-mapping show command to determine the MAC address to interface order, and if necessary, adjust it using the interface-mapping swap command.
   2. For Disk provisioning, select Thin or Thick.
   3. Leave the box checked to power on automatically.
   4. Click Next.
7. On the Additional Settings screen:
   1. Click Bootloader parameters to expand the settings.
   2. Enter the desired boot parameters.

      Note:

      With S-CZ8.4.0p3 or later, you can enter the SHA1 hash of the password for each account (user, admin, and li-admin) into its respective field.
   3. Click Next.
8. On the Ready to Complete screen, review the selections, make edits if necessary, and click Finish.