I have been using Huawei E220 that is a USB modem and it works good in ESXi environnement.
All USB modem should be ok with ESXi Regards, Emmanuel 2012/6/1 Peter Valdemar Mørch <[email protected]> > Hi, > > We've been using Falcom and Tango modems in the past, but they've been > difficult to buy lately. Instead we're considering buying "Moxa > OnCell" or "Siemens MC35i" (which appears to be identical to > "Cinterion MC35i"). > > Now that we're looking to test and buy new modems anyway, we'd love > some that work better in VMware ESX environments where access to > serial ports isn't possible. All the above modems except the "Moxa > OnCell" are accessed via a serial port. > > E.g. something that holds a SIM card, has an IP address and provides > an SMPP interface would be perfect, but I realise I'm a novice in this > field. > > So far in VMware, we've been setting up Moxa Serial Device Servers ( > http://www.moxa.com/product/Serial_Device_Servers.htm ) that via a > kernel module in the ESXi virtual host provide access to a > pseudo-serial port. That is flaky at best. The "Moxa OnCell" also > needs a kernel module, and we haven't yet had success with it. > > I've read http://kannel.org/compatibility.shtml but I haven't been > able to find a vendor for any of the "Phones that works as SMSC's with > Kannel". At least two of the three are no longer being produced, but I > think they all used serial port access, and so don't work so well > under VMware. > > So in short, I'm looking equipment/solutions recommendations that > allow us to send SMSes from both real hardware and VMware ESX guests > using our own SIM card (not a remote hosted solution), using hardware > that is still current and in production and without kernel > modules/patches. > > Does such equipment exist? What do you recommend? > > Thank you for reading this far. > > Peter > -- > Peter Valdemar Mørch > http://www.morch.com > >
