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Revision as of 23:51, 2 March 2014

Installation

Virtual Controller Virtual Interfaces

  • Management Interface
  • Virtual Interface
  • Dynamic Interface
  • AP Manager Interface
Virtual-controller-virtual-interfaces

This is port mapping between ESXi 5.5 and Dell Power Edge 1950 Ethernet ports. Please notice this server has 2 embedded ports and 2 ports on duo-ethernet card.

ESXi-eth-ports-mapping

This section provides a sample configuration of the Cisco Catalyst interface connection to the ESXi server for the virtual switch as trunk interface. The management interface can be connected to an access port on the switch.

Following configuratin is on Cisco 2950 switch

interface FastEthernet0/1
 description ->pe1950 vmnic0 esxi(vWLC Service Port)
 switchport access vlan 10
 switchport mode access
!
interface FastEthernet0/2
 description ->pe1950 vmnic2 esxi trunk(vWLC Data Port)
 switchport trunk allowed vlan 10,1002-1005
 switchport mode trunk
Power Edge 1950 rear
+-----------------------------------+---
|                     |e0|   |e1|   |Dual-Ethernet-card
|-----------------------------/-----|
|      |gb1|    |gb2|        /      |Build-in ethernet ports
+-------/------------------ /-------+---
       /     ______________/
      /     /
+----/---- /------------------------+
|fa0/1|fa0/2|fa0/3|fa0/4|fa0/5      |Cisco 2950 switch
+-----------------------------------+

vWLC software

You will find a related software on Cisco Virtual Wireless Controller software website.

The latest image:

Description:	Cisco Wireless LAN Virtual Controller.
Release:	7.6.100.0
Release Date:	20/Dec/2013
File Name:	AIR-CTVM-K9-7-6-100-0.aes
Size:	141.33 MB (148190536 bytes)
MD5 Checksum:	39820e3d58b90be8fb54ec7a247991a9

Latest guest OS *.ova template

Description:	Cisco Wireless LAN Virtual Controller.
Release:	7.6.100.0
Release Date:	20/Dec/2013
File Name:	AIR-CTVM-7-6-100-0.ova
Size:	177.00 MB (185600000 bytes)
MD5 Checksum:	6285134046a869f71be1e24aaf6ceee5

The currently used software is old deferred release 7.3.101.0.

References