[cisco-voip] Unity Migartion

[Mike Armstrong]

A while back, we had a hardware problem with our Unity server.  I just 
naively pulled the hard drives, stuck them in a spare server (both were 
DL380G2s), and fired it up.  Ran fine for a few weeks until I read somewhere 
that you couldn't change the MAC address or the license manager would barf. 
I e-mailed the licensing guys and they said I'd better send in for an 
updated license pronto.  By then the original server was working again, so 
rather than go through the license change hassle, I just swapped everything 
back.  I don't know what 7835 vs 7855 entails, but you might be able to 
migrate simply by moving the drives as I did and upgrade the license later. 
If this for-sure won't work, and someone can correct me and tell me what the 
license manager _really_ looks for, I'd appreciate it.

Mike Armstrong
UF/IFAS CREC
Lake Alfred, FL

> Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 15:06:04 -0400
> From: "Ortiz, Carlos" <CORTIZ at broward.org>
> Subject: [cisco-voip] Unity Migartion
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> I would like to Migrate from my current 7835 Unity server to my 7855
> server.   Anyone have a doc that has step by step instructions?  Is
> there an easy way to transfer the license files without having to
> register each one again?  I was planning on just restoring from the Dirt
> backup and would like to use the same IP address if it's not a major
> issue.
>
>
>
> Carlos