[cisco-voip] CUCM 6.1 to 8.6 Upgrade

[Jorge L. Rodriguez Aguila]

The reason why it didn't work for you is that prior to 8.0 Cisco did not operate in a virtualized environment so you basically "tricked" the CUCM into believing it was a physical MCS box. In a virtualized environment, the CUCM is aware that it is virtualized, hence when you tried to upgrade to 8.6, the system still believes you are in an MCS box. I would backup your Setup, take one sub offline and rebuild as the pub, restore the drs, install 8.6 to do the bridge drs and install 8.6 on your vmware box and restore from your DRS backup.


Jorge L. Rodriguez Aguila
CCNA, CCNP-VOICE
Senior Voice/Data Consultant
Netxar Technologies
Tel-787-765-0058
Cel 787-688-8530
jorge.rodriguez at netxar.com



-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of MOYLE, Scott
Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2012 11:12 PM
To: Cisco VOIP
Subject: [cisco-voip] CUCM 6.1 to 8.6 Upgrade

Hi,

I am currently attempting a CUCM  upgrade from 6.1 to 8.6.

I am doing this in a bridge fashion side by side with my current active environment.

I am wondering if anyone has had experience with this type of upgrade?

My initial plan was to build a call manager in VMware running 6.1.5(SU3) and do a restore of my active data set.

This worked successfully.

I am now in the process of trying to upgrade the VMware box to version 8.6 so I can extract the data set in this version.

When conducting the upgrade I get the following error in the install log

-------This hadware is no longer supported for "callamanger" deployment------

I did however manage to upgrade to 7.1.2 as I thought by stepping the upgrade I may have more success but this did not work.

Has anyone had success upgrading in this fashion?

It may I am missing a requirement in the bridge process?

Any assistance will be appreciated.

Thanks

Scott
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