Your first challenge (1 week to complete)

To say that I am surprised is to say nothing! I did not think that in the first 24 hours about 600 engineers and managers would sign up. This is a lot, many of whom I know, many of whom I do not know. Many are from England, the Netherlands and for some reason from Spain.

Let me briefly introduce myself, for those who do not know me yet. My name is Alexander, I was born and live in Russia, in Moscow. I have been working in the field of IT and telecom for 23 years. For many years I was an expert trainer and MVP for Teams, until all MVPs from Russia were stripped of their MVP status. I have been working with AudioCodes solutions for 15 years, worked as a certified AudioCodes trainer for 6 years, I had the largest community in Russia, which was sponsored by AudioCodes and Microsoft. Now for me this is not connected with work, a pure hobby.

The goal of the Lab 1 – Exercise 1: Importing SBC VM and setting SBC VM in PowerShell only

Prerequisites:

• The LAB environment already has 7 Virtual networks.
• You need to have a ZIP archive of SBC for Hyper-V platform and unarchiving the ZIP archive.

# Prerequisites
New-VMSwitch -name "LAN 1" -SwitchType Internal
New-VMSwitch -name "LAN 2" -SwitchType Internal
New-VMSwitch -name "LAN 3" -SwitchType Internal
New-VMSwitch -name "LAN 4" -SwitchType Internal
New-VMSwitch -name "LAN 5" -SwitchType Internal
New-VMSwitch -name “OAMP"  -SwitchType Internal
New-VMSwitch -name “WAN"   -SwitchType Internal
$SourceArchive = "c:\Hyper-V\sbc-F7.40A.500.781-hyperv.zip"
Expand-Archive -Path $SourceArchive –DestinationPath $SourcePath        

Steps in the PowerShell:

The first one is importing SBC VM (with disconnected VM Network adapters and using the variable about the VHD Destination Path).

The second one is renaming SBC VM.

The third one is adding the second CPU (for supporting the transcoding)

The fourth one is turning on the Virtual Com Port for setting up networks w/o using IP 192.168.0.2/24

The fifth one is adding 6 virtual network adapters to SBC VM and renaming the first 2 network adapters (to the exactly the same names as in GUI of the SBC).

The sixth one is assigning the VLANs to the two VM network adapters.

The seventh one is connecting all 8 VM network adapters to 7 desired Virtual Networks.

This lab takes 1 week to complete. This is not taught in ACA/ACP courses and is not in the documentation. I figured it out myself. Watch the video to see how it works (it takes about 1 minute to deploy the SBC).

Good luck! If something doesn't work, write in the comments and figure it out together with other engineers.

BR, Alex