topic Re: NEW version of Comware Simulator released - HCL_Setup_V2.0.0 in Network Simulator

NEW version of Comware Simulator released - HCL_Setup_V2.0.0

JayFlora — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 15:56:37 GMT

Hello Everyone,

A NEW version of HCL (H3C Cloud Lab or HPE Comware Lab) is out.

DOWNLOAD - www.h3c.com

This version supports EVPN.

I'm working with the web team to add the new HCL file under Direct download link on the HPE download page.

Thanks,

Jay

Re: NEW version of Comware Simulator released - HCL_Setup_V2.0.0

Mechanicalthink — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 08:34:32 GMT

Thanks, great news! Downloading now.

Hope this finally works properly with VirtualBox 5 as I came here to make an angry post about HPE not getting their act together regarding this. Cisco is so much ahead of HPE when it comes to training and HPE still drags its feet.

Re: NEW version of Comware Simulator released - HCL_Setup_V2.0.0

CCTobias — Wed, 08 Feb 2017 19:57:31 GMT

EVPN is working fine so far, but I have difficulties configuring the ac. I reduced it to that simple config:

 l2vpn enable
#
interface Vsi-interface1
 ip address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0
#
vsi vlan1
 gateway vsi-interface 1
#
interface GigabitEthernet1/0/1
 port link-mode bridge
 combo enable fiber
 service-instance 1001
  encapsulation default
  xconnect vsi vlan1 access-mode ethernet

On Gig1/0/1 is a virtual PC connected that can ping 192.168.1.1 when it is configured on interface Vlan 1 instead of vsi-interface 1. Is something wrong with the service instance configuration?

Regards

Tobias

Re: NEW version of Comware Simulator released - HCL_Setup_V2.0.0

IanTomkins — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 20:36:38 GMT

I have tried to build a simple VPLS lab and found the same issue. Seems that it was present in the previous version too based on the post here.

Re: NEW version of Comware Simulator released - HCL_Setup_V2.0.0

IngoH — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 12:00:58 GMT

Hello,

To my experience MPLS L2VPN as well as VXLAN/EVPN do not work with bridged-ports in the simulator; can be configured but traffic is not flowing. However they work perfectly using a routed port towards the end-node.

Try for having traffic untagged / access port:
interface GigabitEthernet1/0/1
port link-mode route
xconnect vsi <VSI-Name>

Example adding a tagged VLAN; use a sub interface:
interface GigabitEthernet1/0/1.10
vlan-type dot1q vid 10
xconnect vsi <VSI-Name>

Best use a router manual for reference on the setup, i.e. VSR1000 manuals.

Regards,
Ingo

Re: NEW version of Comware Simulator released - HCL_Setup_V2.0.0

IanTomkins — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 12:11:47 GMT

OK, that is interesting information. I will give it a go in my test LAB and see how it goes.

Do you think it is device dependant as well - i.e. router vs switch?

Re: NEW version of Comware Simulator released - HCL_Setup_V2.0.0

737Captain — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 07:31:03 GMT

Will you guys ever make it available for the MAC?

Re: NEW version of Comware Simulator released - HCL_Setup_V2.0.0

vladi0782 — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 21:31:43 GMT

I have this problem

could you help me?

Re: NEW version of Comware Simulator released - HCL_Setup_V2.0.0

BDeeds — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 15:46:53 GMT

A fix to this problem is found at post #8 on H3C's forum

Solution: Use VirtualBox version 5.0.20 or 5.0.31

Link: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds_5_0

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Steps I took:

Download and installed VirtualBox 5.1.18
Installed HCL 2.0.2.1
Started HCL 2.0.2.1
Tried to start the MSR and received the error Vladi posted
Uninstalled VirtualBox 5.1.18
Download and installed VirtualBox 5.0.20
Start HCL 2.0.2.1
Drag&Drop MSR
Successfully started the MSR along with multiple other MSRs and S5820s

Re: NEW version of Comware Simulator released - HCL_Setup_V2.0.0

davidfabry — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 15:58:11 GMT

It is very frustrating to bring the HCL up and running, information is so scarce, instructions are missing.

Last version available at www.h3c.com

but the Release Notes file is illegible !! (see picture attached)

I tried under W7 64 bit, VBox versions suggested in the previous entries with no success at all. There´s no HCL log to see at ...not even a clue.

HCL could be a fantastic sales and support tool, it would be really nice to have a more "partner friendly" tool from HPE.

Any other help will be really appreciated !!!

Re: NEW version of Comware Simulator released - HCL_Setup_V2.0.0

Mechanicalthink — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 10:38:49 GMT

It's surprising that HPE still has not it's act together when it comes to training materials. Cisco is now so far ahead that I doubt HPE will ever catch up. Even Juniper is doing better when it comes to training materials. Theres plenty of Cisco books, video courses from respectable training companies like CBT Nuggets and of course Packet Tracer 7 for simulation. HPE is still dragging its feet and seems to have abondoned any effort to improve training materials altogehter.

The HP Press book series is a start but many of those books are not much better than the hardware manuals and they seems to be written in a rush (plenty of mistakes there).

Latest version of Comware Lab should work ok though. I got it running on 64bit Win 10 and latest version of VirtualBox wihtout much problem. Didn't have to do anything special. Only problem I had was that download from China was extremely slow and took almost a full day, and of course no release notes.

Re: NEW version of Comware Simulator released - HCL_Setup_V2.0.0

davidfabry — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 15:27:58 GMT

I just tested under W10 and Vbox Version 5.1.26, no success , the only message is "Start server Failed".

Maybe it could be a problem with the Windows languaje ? I have mine in Spanish ....at this point it could be any silly setting !!! I will try in English during the weekend.

Re: NEW version of Comware Simulator released - HCL_Setup_V2.0.0

davidfabry — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 15:27:47 GMT

Maybe it would be better to HPE to switch on GNS3

Re: NEW version of Comware Simulator released - HCL_Setup_V2.0.0

PattyMcP — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 15:52:08 GMT

I am unable to download this the file. It starts to download, gets to about 5mb and then fails. This has happened multiple times. Is there an alternate site where I can try to down this software?

软件名称：HCL_Setup_V2.1.0

发布日期：2017/5/24 0:00:00

下载：

(581.51 MB)

Re: NEW version of Comware Simulator released - HCL_Setup_V2.0.0

PattyMcP — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 14:17:56 GMT

Hi David,

Can you provide the link to the latest HCL Simulation software?

Thanks,

Patty

Re: NEW version of Comware Simulator released - HCL_Setup_V2.0.0

bnt734 — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 15:52:43 GMT

Hello,

Same issue here, so frustrating!

Download keeps failing !!

Any alternative link / torrent ?

Thanks

Re: NEW version of Comware Simulator released - HCL_Setup_V2.0.0

davidfabry — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 19:42:54 GMT

You can download it from my Onedrive from the following URL folks

https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtFwfhMnDFRhgepJLRbtQGZit01R7Q

Any inputs about your progress will be really appreciated, I burned a lot of time trying to bring the HCL once again with no sucess at all.

In the same folder you will find information I found in the Internet.

Saludos

David

Re: NEW version of Comware Simulator released - HCL_Setup_V2.0.0

sebucu — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 22:01:31 GMT

It works perfect on windows 7, without any hacks

Re: NEW version of Comware Simulator released - HCL_Setup_V2.0.0

Vladani — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 13:31:16 GMT

Great,

is there a way to filter HSRp over EVI tunnel on this version ? I coudnt fillter it before.

Did anyone tried maybe ?

Re: NEW version of Comware Simulator released - HCL_Setup_V2.0.0

mtbernier — Tue, 26 Dec 2017 15:49:25 GMT

I was able to install HCL v2.1.0 but running the HCL Cloud Lab executable displays the message:

Errors ocurred. See the logfile 'C:\Program Files (x86)\HCL\H3C Cloud Lab.exe.log' for details. The contents of the logfile are:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "HCLUpdate.py", line 9, in <module>
File "Ui_PopUp.pyc", line 10, in <module>
File "PyQt4\QtGui.pyc", line 12, in <module>
File "PyQt4\QtGui.pyc", line 10, in __load
ImportError: DLL load failed: The operating system cannot run %1.

It appears the executable is trying to access files that do not.exist. Has anyone successfully installed and EXECUTED HCL version 2.1.0