[cisco-voip] UCM Upgrade

[Matthew Loraditch]

Because of the upcoming vmware support in CCM8 it has an updated licensing mechanism that will fully license a vmware instance
Obviously not supported but if you don't have spare mcs servers to lab with and the demo licenses aren't sufficient then this might be your best option as long as you have UCSS

----- Original Message -----
From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net <cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net>
To: mballard at otis.edu <mballard at otis.edu>
Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net <cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
Sent: Fri Mar 19 23:47:02 2010
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] UCM Upgrade

Thanks, I tried following this guide but so far no luck. The Linux
side of things looks fine but CallManager isn't liking it.

http://www.blindhog.net/how-to-change-the-mac-addres-on-a-call-manager-56-server/


On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Matthew Ballard <mballard at otis.edu> wrote:
> Officially, VMWare can't spoof MAC addresses.  It is possible, but it's a
> pain.  In Windows you can't spoof it in the Windows driver.  For UCM, it
> would require manually modifying and XML file on the server, but last I
> checked it was more difficult than it was worth.
>
>
>
> Matthew Ballard
> Network Manager
> Otis College of Art and Design
> mballard at otis.edu
>
> Sent from my Palm Pre
> ________________________________
> On Mar 19, 2010 7:29 PM, Jeff Mottishaw <mottie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >From my understanding VMware cannot spoof arbitrary MAC addresses.
> They must be VMware specific MAC addresses in the format
> 00:50:56:XX:YY:ZZ.
>
> http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=219&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&dialogID=69266812&stateId=1%200%2069270528
>
> I have tried installing in VMware and then converting to Hyper-V but
> networking does not function.
>
> Unfortunately I can't move forward with "not many changes". That is
> not acceptable to our users, especially without notification of the
> changes or training on the new
> version.
>
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Dennis Heim <Dennis.Heim at cdw.com> wrote:
>> You are looking at a 2 stage upgrade if you go to 7.1(3)x. There really
>> are not many user changes between 6.x and 7.x
>>
>> Dennis Heim
>> Network Voice Engineer
>> CDW  Advanced Technology Services
>> 11711 N. Meridian Street, Suite 225
>> Carmel, IN  46032
>>
>> 317.569.4255 Office
>> 317.569.4201 Fax
>> 317.694.6070 Cell
>> dennis.heim at cdw.com
>> www.berbee.com
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net
>> [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Jeff Mottishaw
>> Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 9:53 PM
>> To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
>> Subject: [cisco-voip] UCM Upgrade
>>
>> We have a Call Manager cluster (pub + sub) that is horribly out of date
>> (6.0.1.2000-3). We have intentionally avoiding updating because our phone
>> users are all billable resources and some do not deal with change very well.
>> Since we have no idea how our complex config will look on the new versions
>> we can't come up with a training manual, etc etc. We are now running into a
>> couple bugs (Extension Mobility and Call Parking) that are fixed in newer
>> versions.
>>
>> I'm writing to ask how you all deal with testing updates. I initially
>> looked at running a CallManager lab in VMware to give our admin staff a
>> chance to try (manually change the TFTP server on their phones) the update
>> before we rolled it out to the production server but the licensing
>> limitations have temporarily killed that idea.
>>
>> If we roll out the upgrade on a Friday, have our admin staff come in on
>> Saturday to test can we safely roll back to the previous version (backup
>> partition) on Sunday provided we don't make any changes to the
>> configuration?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help and feedback.
>>
>> Jeff
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