[cisco-voip] Cisco CUCM 6.1.3 to 8.0.0 Upgrade

[Tor-Ivar Kristoffersen]

Hi Charles

My DRS would not go through until I set the same HOST name and the same IP address as the production server had.
Also the version has to be exactly the same...But that I guess you got covered

The "Late night" edition is a often used scenario, unfortunately

G'luck

Mvh
Tor-Ivar Kristoffersen
IT Konsulent
Lufttransport AS

Fra: Charles Goldsmith [mailto:wokka at justfamily.org]
Sendt: 18. juni 2010 00:58
Til: Tor-Ivar Kristoffersen
Kopi: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Emne: Re: [cisco-voip] Cisco CUCM 6.1.3 to 8.0.0 Upgrade

You got further than I did, my DRS restore failed in the VM with 7.1.3.10000 (which is my current production version).

I installed 7.0.2 in the VM off of a bootable ISO, upgraded it to 7.1.3 and tried the DRS but it kept failing.

I'm using a 73gb drive size in the VM btw, which works fine for a clean install of 8.0.

I'm probably just going to upgrade my production one night late and test... if things don't go well, I'll roll back to the inactive partition.

Charles
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Tor-Ivar Kristoffersen <tik at lufttransport.no<mailto:tik at lufttransport.no>> wrote:
Hi

I have been struggeling with this upgrade for some some now. I hope someone can cast som light on the matter

We are running an MCS-7835 with 6.1.3.3190 on. This server does not support 8.0. We also have a new IBM Server that now has a clean install of 8.0.0 on it. The server supports 8.0, and is ordered to Cisco spec. But it will not support 6.1.3 nor 7. So I have a gap between 6.1.3 and 8.0 here.

This I hoped to resolv by installing a clean 6.1.3.3190 server in vmware, restoring the DRS backup from our production server, and then upgrade this to 8 and do a DRS backup again. Restore to the new server and voila :D. Sounds like a good plan ?

I tought so  too, but its not as easy as it seems.....

I did a DRS, that went fine.
Made my 6.1.3.3190 clean install in vmware, that went fine aswell.
Made a separate VLAN so that I could use the actual IP's without interfering with the production server.
And did a DRS restore. All this went fine.
Now then.

My ISO image of the upgrade file is called Bootable_UCSInstall_UCOS_8.0.0.99121-8.sgn.iso

I have tried using this on a DVD and via SFTP with the same result. NO GO :(

It errors out during the initial upgrade process. Failing on the Disks in vmware.

                 Critical Error

Validation error on HSSI mode:
VMWare Validation Failure:
Unable to validate VMWare based server disk settings.
Please check SCSI disks are at least 72GB in size and are located at 0:0 (and 0:1 in a two disk config) in machine settings.


This is the error message.

My disks have been 1x120gb, 2x120gb, 2x80gb ( I tried 3 times)
Same error every time.

My VMWARE HOST is setup with the following specs.

2 vcpu
6GB MEM
2x120GB disks
Flexible network adapter ( First E1000, but same error)
LSI Logic Disk conroller
Redhat Enterprise 4.2 and 5 . (tried both)

So now I am basically out of ideas for where to go next.

Does anyone have any good ideas for me ?
I have been thinking of this bridged upgrade, but my current hardware MCS 7835 with 6.1.3 will not recognize the ISO file as a valid upgrade option , and I think its not supported on my hardware.

So again.....anything folks.


Best Regards
Tor-Ivar Kristoffersen
IT Konsulent
Lufttransport AS


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