Deploying the Virtual Room Connector in Zoom App
In addition to H.323 and SIP devices, the Virtual Room Connector (VRC) provides a gateway on-premises. An H.323 or SIP device can join a Zoom Meeting by making a video call to a VRC.
The VRC is available as a virtual machine installation on a private cloud. Zoom meetings can be joined by internal SIP/H.323 devices connected to your internal network. Having the VRC in your external network allows SIP/H.323 devices to join Zoom Meetings (however, you can set up 1-1 NAT or Port Forwarding on your network so that the server is behind your firewall but accessible from the outside).
Virtual Room Connector is packaged as an Open Virtualization Format (OVF) and can be deployed on any virtualization platform that supports OVF, including:
- VMware VSphere, VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion
- Nutanix (validated on Nutanix AHV and ESXi (AOS 5.5.5))
- Virtual Box (best-effort support)
System specifications for the VM can be found here.
Prerequisites for deploying the Virtual Room Connector
- Tested H.323/SIP: Polycom, Cisco Tandberg, Life size, Panasonic and Aver. Please contact us for others as we may have done limited testing.
- Tested SIP: Biscotti, Lab, Cisco. Please contact us for others as we may have done limited testing.
- VM System Specifications
- Business, education or API plan
- Room Connector port subscription. The price for Cloud Room Connector and Virtual Room Connector ports are the same.
Instructions
Deploying the Virtual Room Connector
- Login to your Zoom web portal and navigate to H.323/SIP Room Connector, then Virtual Room Connector.
- Under Download & Token, click Virtual Room Connector.
- Download the OVF and VMFK files.
- Open and deploy the files in your VM client.
- Once the Virtual Machine has been started, log in with the default credentials:
- Username: admin
- Password: This will be randomly generated on startup, but can set to a specific password that will not be displayed on startup.
- Use the command if config to check the IP address of the server. If the server does not have an IP address, configure.
- your browser, navigate to the web console at https://ipaddress:5480
- Login with the default credentials. During first login, change the password.
- On the Configure tab, enter the token from the Virtual Room Connector page of the Zoom web console
Dial strings for the Virtual Room Connector
To connect from a H.323 device, enter:
- IP Address only, then enter meeting ID on the welcome screen, or
- IP Address##Meeting ID, for example: 192.168.3.142##213746932
- IP Address##MeetingID#password : 192.168.3.142##213746932#1122
- MeetingID@IP Address: 2139746932@192.168.3.142 [Some Cisco/Tandberg devices]
To connect from a SIP device, enter:
- IP Address only, then enter meeting ID on the welcome screen, or
- Meeting ID@IP Address, for example: 213746932@192.168.3.142
- meetingid.password@ip or meetingid:password@ip
Changing the Admin login password
- Click the Login button in the VM.
- Using the admin credentials, log in to the VM.
- Then click on User > Manage.
- Select If you wish to change the password for the admin account, click Change Password.
- The current Admin password should be entered, followed by the new password, which should be re-entered as confirmation.
- Click the Modify button.