Cisco LMS 4.2 Appliance on VMware vSphere 4.0

[Bart Mars]

Hi all,

I'm currently trying to install the Cisco LMS 4.2 Appliance on a VMware vSphere 4.0 environment.

I'm following the http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/ciscoworks_lan_management_solution/4.2/install/guide/instl.html#wp1689675
guide.

I downloaded the Cisco_Prime_LAN_Management_Solution_4_2.iso and I started the server.

I get this screen and I choose option 1:

A Welcome message appears:

Welcome to Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.2

To boot from hard disk, press <Enter>

The following options appears:

•[1] Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution 4.2 Installation

This option allows you to perform installation of LMS 4.2.

•[2] Recover administrator password

This option allows you to recover the administration password. Follow Step 3 to Step 17 of Recovering Admin Password on Soft Appliance Installed on VMware, to recover the administration password.

•<Enter> Boot existing OS from Hard Disk

This allows you to boot up the existing OS available in the hard disk.

However, unlike the installation on my laptop (using VMware Workstation) I cannot get to this part:

Enter the following configuration details of the server:

•Hostname

•IP Address

•Subnetmask

•Gateway

•DNS Domain

et cetera

What follows looks like an installation to me.

When this stops I get a

localhost login:

I cannot enter Setup as I get a password statement afterwards.

Can somebody please help me as I'm having no idea what went wrong..

Many thanks in advance.

[Marvin Rhoads · Accepted solution]

If you're getting "localhost login:", the initial installation has not completed properly. You may have downloaded the wrong file. It should generally be the .ova file - not the .iso - for a VMWare installation unless you are insallaing onto an NCS or UCS server.

I'd blow away that VM and start over with a fresh download.

[Bart Mars]

Thanks for your help, Marvin.

We went ahead with the .ova file and it worked alright.

We also did a little test and it seems that the .iso file does work on some VMware platforms. Our test environment had a VMware vSphere 4.1. When we started a VM with the same specs and the ISO file mounted, the installation did succeed.

[Marvin Rhoads]

You're welcome. I'm glad my suggestion worked.

Thanks for the rating.