still expensive... vRack rental will be a better alternative to this at the moment (if wireless vRacks will be launched at all!), although it is more convenient to have your own kit at hands.
Anton, I have got asa5505, any clues how convert it into 2106 would be much appreciated. The right BiOS is required, but I have no idea: - where to take one - how to upgrade bios on asa5505 ZZZ On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 3:50 PM, george stefanick < [email protected]> wrote: > I bought a 4400 on bay for 1500 a few weeks ago ... they are coming down in > price. > > > On Dec 20, 2010, at 9:17 AM, Anton Vinokurov wrote: > > Hi All, > > 2710 Location Appliance virtualization is trivial. > 3310/3350 Mobility Services Engine virtualization is a bit more > complicated, but also straightforward. > Obviously you need to have a WCS with Location (Plus) license, otherwise > your Location engines are pretty useless. > All other stuff like DNS, Windows domain (AD), CA, ACS (including 5.0), WCS > can be easily virtualized as well. > > Virtualized hardware runs in production environment even better than native > appliance-based one. You get HA, DRS, increased manageability, scalability > and other nice features. Of course, not officially supported. > > 2106 controller (its hardware is the same as for ASA5505) is theoretically > possible to virtualize as well. I gave up after few weeks trying J From > the practical standpoint, it may take months as one have to write a > MontaVista 4 Linux driver for Marvel 88E60xx chip J If you have a spare > ASA box, I guess it is possible to “convert” it to 2106. > It is likely NOT possible to run higher controller (440x and 5508) code in > virtual environment as CPU architecture is not i386 (440x is ARM, and 5508 > is MIPS64). > > Regards, > > Anton Vinokurov > CCIE #23134 (R&S), CCDP > [email protected] > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Geek Mega > *Sent:* Monday, December 20, 2010 4:54 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [CCIE Wireless] CCIE_Wireless Digest, Vol 21, Issue 10 > > Has anyone managed (or trying) to get WLC working on VM? > > Does anyone know how to extract BiOS from wlc2106 (if it is possible at > all) or where to get one from? > > ZZZ > _______________________________________________ > > For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please > visit www.ipexpert.com > > > george stefanick > [email protected] > > >
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