[cisco-voip] CUCM 6.1 Upgrade Recovery Question

[PhilippG]

I think this utility is the Recovery-CD and it changes some 
BIOS-settings back to windows values. On a partner VT in feb 2006 
somebody told us that you have to run this utility before you use this 
server for windows OS again.

Scott Voll wrote:
> I thought there was a utility on the CM 6.x DVDs that you need to run 
> before going back to windows version to reset the Raid / scsi?
>  
> Am i incorrect?
>  
> Scott
> 
> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 6:06 AM, Ryan Ratliff <rratliff at cisco.com 
> <mailto:rratliff at cisco.com>> wrote:
> 
>     That's pretty much it.  Make sure you power down the server prior to
>     removing the 4.1 disks.
> 
>     -Ryan
> 
> 
>     On May 15, 2008, at 3:43 PM, STEVEN CASPER wrote:
> 
>     Getting ready to upgrade  from Call Manager 4.1.3 to 6.1.1 by
>     removing our
>     existing hard drives and installing new hard drives to load 6.1.1
>     on. The system will be
>     then be restored using the DMA file.
> 
>     If we had to fall back to 4.1.3 by reinstalling the 4.1.3 disk
>     drives do we need to do
>     anything  special or is it simply a matter of powering down the Call
>     Manager servers, removing the 6.1 disks, inserting the 4.1.3 disks
>     and powering the servers up? I have tried this in the lab and it
>     seemed to work fine but I just want to make sure I am not missing
>     anything.