I use a combination of GNS3 (for EIGRP, OSPF, Multicast, ...) and VMWare (ACS, WCS, DC,DNS, Clients) and map several physical network cards to different "clouds" in GNS3. This allows me to connect different pieces of hardware to different points of my "topology" - and using USB wireless lan adapters also allows you to test CSSC virtually (unfortunately no support for PCMCIA Cisco cards in vmware). Using this tools you can create quite flexible topologies and you "only" need some controller and AP hardware.
As far as I know, there is a slight difference (I guess just a single chip?) between the 2106 and the 5505 hardware? Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von zzz Gesendet: Montag, 20. Dezember 2010 16:59 An: george stefanick Cc: [email protected] Betreff: Re: [CCIE Wireless] CCIE_Wireless Digest, Vol 21, Issue 10 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]<mailto:[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 :) From the practical standpoint, it may take months as one have to write a MontaVista 4 Linux driver for Marvel 88E60xx chip :) 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]<mailto:[email protected]> From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Geek Mega Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 4:54 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[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<http://www.ipexpert.com> george stefanick [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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