C-MOR Video Surveillance on VMware ESX Server

 

This guideline illustrates the installation of the C-MOR Video Surveillance Virtual Machine on VMware ESX Server. The Virtual Video Surveillance Recorder C-MOR can be deployment in a few minutes on a virtualization system like VMware, Hyper-VM, KVM or VirtualBox.

Please start the installation (Deployment) by downloading the C-MOR VMware image from: http://www.c-mor.com/video-surveillance-download.

 

Download C-MOR VMware Version

 

Extract the ZIP file after the download into a separate folder.

 

Login into ESX/VMware vCenter Management Interface and and right click on your server environment. Select "Deploy OVF Template...":

 

Video Surveillance deploy OVF template VMware

 

Select "Local File" and click on "Choose Files" in the window that opened:

 

Deploy OVF template choose file

 

 Select form the just extracted files the following:

 

Select files to deploy OVF template

 

 Now the file selection of the vCenter Deploy OVF Template window shows 3 selected files. Click next in the right bottom area:

 

Deploy OVF template 3 files selected click Next

 

Select the location where you want to deploy the Video Surveilance C-MOR inside your VMware Infrastructure:

 

VMware Deploy OVF Template select name folder

 

 Select the server on which the Video Surveillance system is deployed:

 

 Deploy OVF Template select computer ressource

 

 Confirm the settings in the next window and click "NEXT":

 

Deploy OVF Template confirm settings

 

 Select the storage location where the Video Surveillance will be installed and click "NEXT":

 

Deploy OVF Template select storage

 

Select the VMware network in the next network. If required another network adapter could be added later to separate the Video Surveillance traffic:

 

Deploy OVF Template select vmware network

 

 Confirm the final settings of the OVF Template Deployment to start the installation of C-MOR Video Surveillance:

 

Deploy OVF Template confirm final settings

 

Now the window for the OVF Template Deployment closes and the vCenter shows the status of the Deployment:

 

vCenter shows Deployment rollout status

 

 Now C-MOR is installed. Start it from the vCenter. Select it from the left infrastructure tree using the right mouse button:

 

Select the just deployed Video Surveillance System

 

The context menu opens (right click) and select "Power on":

 

 Power on C-MOR in VMware vCenter

 

Also open the Remote Console to review the start of C-MOR. C-MOR restarts once automatically again for the initial startup:

 

VMware Consol Window C-MOR starts

 

Select first the language after the successful rollout C-MOR:

 

 C-MOR Console select language

 

Now the C-MOR Console is displayed with the basic settings. The default password is "admin" to change settings:

 

The C MOR Console after successful OVF Template Deployment

 

 The default IP of C-MOR is 192.168.1.2. You can change it now in the C-MOR console or if C-MOR was rolled out inside the network 192.168.1.0/24 by entering http://192.168.1.2 in the web browser. Change the IP address ff this is setting not capable and enter the just set IP in the web browser to access C-MOR. After accepting the Disclaimer the web interface shows up:

 

C-MOR Video Surveillance Web Interface

 

Now proced with the camera configuration of camera 1 or install the license.

 

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