[cisco-voip] Unity 4.x Upgrade to 5

[Jonathan Charles]

I actually opened a TAC case years ago and asked why, they said that
was just the way it installs the OS... I told them I was never doing
that again (after C had run out of HD space and shut down...)



Jonathan

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Go0se<me at go0se.com> wrote:
> Ah. I agree that it isn't big enough. I didn’t think 8gb was enough back in
> the day when Unity 4 was current.
>
> I've read the documentation fairly thoroughly and never saw an actual
> requirement.
>
> -Go0se
> http://atc.go0se.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Charles [mailto:jonvoip at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 12:39 PM
> To: Go0se
> Cc: Samuel Womack; Scott Voll; Cisco Voip
> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Unity 4.x Upgrade to 5
>
> There is no such requirement, and as far as I can tell it is a
> disaster in the making.
>
> First off, it is too small for a modern OS install (especially with
> 4GB of RAM, your pagefile.sys is going to be that big...); second,
> Unity, Exchange, SQL all default to install on C: (and cannot be
> changed ever again after installl without blowing everything away and
> starting over).
>
> Which is why I have been wondering why the Unity OS disks install a
> 12GB partition and then the rest as D:
>
> On new G5s with 146GB drives, this gives you a massive drive for the
> data files, and no where near big enough for the OS.
>
> So, do this.
>
> Get a copy of Windows 2003, install it on the server as one big
> partition (disable UDDI and IE Security crap, enable SNMP, NNTP, SMTP,
> etc). Use the key from the Unity OS disks to activate Windows, and
> instlal everything on C:
>
>
>
>
> Jonathan
>
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Go0se<me at go0se.com> wrote:
>> Can anyone point me to cisco documentation regarding the requirement of a
>> 12gb partition?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>> Go0se
>>
>> http://atc.go0se.com
>>
>>
>>
>> From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
>> [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Samuel Womack
>> Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 11:46 AM
>> To: Scott Voll
>> Cc: Cisco Voip
>> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Unity 4.x Upgrade to 5
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks guys...I'll be using a New Server for this...So I'll build the New
>> Server in Parallel (Digital Networking)...and Starting Moving things via
> GSM
>> (subscribers at least) and then COBRAS for everything else...and of course
>> make sure I don't miss anything that COBRAS doesn't move itself...and of
>> course...the 12Gig (ugh!)...I've seen that a time or two here...think I
>> experienced this with a customer I was doing Implementation for (already
>> installed when I got there...).
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Aug 3, 2009, at 10:09 AM, Scott Voll wrote:
>>
>> So long as you have the 12gig C partition.  if you have the 8gig.......
> it's
>> a backup.  reload Unity 4 with 12 gig partition then restore then upgrade
>> ;-(.  Found out the hard way.
>>
>>
>>
>> Scott
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Pat Hayes <pat-cv at wcyv.com> wrote:
>>
>> Unity 4.x -> 5.0 is just a regular in-place upgrade, check the upgrade
>> guide. No need to run a DiRT restore or COBRAS.
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Samuel Womack<womacksamuel at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> What is the way to go about this these days...Noticed wording on
>>> ciscounitytools that DirT isn't the thing to use for this....COBRAS is
> the
>>> official supported way to do this?
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