[cisco-voip] CUCM 6.1(2) upgrade

[Jason Aarons (US)]

I did a two node 300 phone system from 4.1(3) to 6.1(2), all included with Attendant Console upgrades and extensive user and application testing it took 9 hours the day of, plus another 8 hour maintenance window the week before to resolve all DMA/Upgrade assistant issues and reboot with latest BARS and get a good backup, plus we staffed up for post cutover support on Monday after cutover for issues like IE shortcuts no longer working for new ccmuser, etc.

 

I used to start at 5pm on Friday but it would be 11pm when issues surfaced and everyone would be half asleep and not paying attention to details.  I’ve moved to starting at 8am Saturday so everyone is thinking and on their toes still by 3pm, no one is ready to leave because they are too tired….I once had a customer tell me at 9pm she was tired and locking us out, she was going home regardless if the phone system worked or not for the campus! Seems she had something called tenure and couldn’t be fired regardless what she did. Almost sounds better than a union.

 

From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Lelio Fulgenzi
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 2:53 PM
To: Thomas Maniccia
Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] CUCM 6.1(2) upgrade

 

It probably depends on the a few things:

*	server hardware/platform
*	size of database

I'll bet if you start on Friday after 5PM, you'll be ready by the time Monday rolls around.

You can do a dry run just to make sure. I don't think there is anything that says you can't reinstall over the inactive partition.


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Maniccia" <maniccia at buffalo.edu>
To: "cisco-voip at puck.nether.net" <cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 2:32:26 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] CUCM 6.1(2) upgrade


Thanks to all that responded it looks like I made wise choice by cancelling the upgrade.

On a final note does anyone have a time frame the upgrade takes? We have approximately 3300 phones on the system. Do the subscribers take less time than the publisher?

I don't want to cut myself short on time as I have 5 subscribers

Thank in advance.


> 
> >
> > If I upgrade my inactive partition today and do not reboot until my
> > next maintenance window and technicians make database changes will
> > those changes be migrated when I activate the inactive partition or
> > will they be lost.
> >
> >    Thanks,
> >     Tom
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