Help with Expressway 12.6.4 with OVA HW reservations

[Juan Gerardo Hernandez]

hi guys!

hey my company is trying to implement Expressway and I got the latest's ova from Cisco.com. The issue is that the esxi guys do not allow to install an ova that has reservations and vmx hardware version 8.

This one:

VirtualHardwareSection ovf:transport="com.vmware.guestInfo">
      <Info>Virtual hardware requirements</Info>
      <System>
        <vssd:ElementName>Virtual Hardware Family</vssd:ElementName>
        <vssd:InstanceID>0</vssd:InstanceID>
        <vssd:VirtualSystemType>vmx-08</vssd:VirtualSystemType>
      </System>
      <Item>
        <rasd:AllocationUnits>hertz * 10^6</rasd:AllocationUnits>
        <rasd:Description>Number of Virtual CPUs</rasd:Description>
        <rasd:ElementName>8 virtual CPU(s)</rasd:ElementName>
        <rasd:InstanceID>1</rasd:InstanceID>
        <rasd:Reservation>16000</rasd:Reservation>
        <rasd:ResourceType>3</rasd:ResourceType>
        <rasd:VirtualQuantity>8</rasd:VirtualQuantity>
        <rasd:Weight>8000</rasd:Weight>
        <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="sharesLevel" vmw:value="normal"/>
        <vmw:CoresPerSocket ovf:required="false">1</vmw:CoresPerSocket>
      </Item>
      <Item>
        <rasd:AllocationUnits>byte * 2^20</rasd:AllocationUnits>
        <rasd:Description>Memory Size</rasd:Description>
        <rasd:ElementName>8192MB of memory</rasd:ElementName>
        <rasd:InstanceID>2</rasd:InstanceID>
        <rasd:Reservation>8192</rasd:Reservation>
        <rasd:ResourceType>4</rasd:ResourceType>
        <rasd:VirtualQuantity>8192</rasd:VirtualQuantity>
        <rasd:Weight>81920</rasd:Weight>
        <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="sharesLevel" vmw:value="normal"/>
      </Item>
      <Item>

I was wondering if you guys can help me how can I create an OVA or OVF file that do not have those limitation without screwing up the original OVA (also supported by Cisco)

Could you please help me in this?

[Jaime Valencia]

Documentation is pretty clear on this, you need to provide the required specs for each deployment size AND the RAM, CPU and NIC reservations as stated in the installation guide.

There should be no problem if they deploy and then update the VM version, but resource reservation as per documentation is mandatory.

Failure to do so, means the deployment will NOT be supported by Cisco.