[cisco-voip] Call Manager 7.0.1 Hardware Swap

[Lelio Fulgenzi]

You'll need to buy a media kit. About $150 bucks list I think. Min version for new servers is 7.1(3b) I believe. 

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On Feb 2, 2011, at 8:18 AM, "Churchill, Jason" <Jason.Churchill at uxcconnect.com.au> wrote:

> Hi all,
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> I have a quick question for the list. I have to perform an upgrade for my customer. They have old 7825H2 and H3 servers which are currently running CUCM 7.0.1
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> New hard ware has been purchased by them and we have been asked to complete the migration from their current server hardware to the new hardware. During this move we will move them to the latest stable release of CUCM 7.1.5
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> The process we were going to follow was to take a DRS backup for the current 7.01 system, restore to the new hardware with 7.01 installed, upgrade to 7.02 then to 7.1.5. However when I put the dvd of CUCM 7.0.1 into the new IBM MCS servers, it will not detect the hardware or any devices on the system. Only the keyboard and video display works. This leaves me to believe that since the 7.0.1 DVD was made back in 2008, the new IBM hardware drivers are not loaded on the install disk, and therefore the system can’t detect the drivers to allow the install to continue.
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> So I was wondering what everyone would do in this situation? Does cisco provide an updated 7.0.1 bootable DVD that can be used on the new servers? As DRS can only restore to the same version on the new server, we either have to:
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> 1.       Upgrade the current live cluster to 7.1.5 or
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> 2.       Work out a way to get the older 7.0.1 software on the new IBM MCS servers.
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> At all possible costs, we would like to avoid upgrading the live system to 7.1.5 on box, as the current system is pretty unstable. However this may be the only viable way forward.
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> Can anyone suggest any other ways of getting around this issue?
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> Thanks.
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> Jason
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