[cisco-voip] Migrating from CUCM 7.1.3 to CUCM 8.6.2

[Ryan Ratliff (rratliff)]

If I were in your shoes the choice would be driven primarily by 1) features and 2) ease of upgrade.  Since you already want to end up virtualized the jump upgrade will allow you to do the whole thing in VMs and not touch your MCS servers at all.

The licensing stuff is going to be done at some point anyway so take the hit now when you are already looking at an upgrade so you won't have to do it again in a few years when you are right back in this situation.  You also have a big focus inside Cisco to make the license migrations as painless as possible.

-Ryan

On Aug 16, 2013, at 11:41 AM, Fred Hunt <FHunt at erdman.com<mailto:FHunt at erdman.com>>
 wrote:

Thanks Stephen and Ryan.  I have attended some of the CUG webinars on upgrading to 9.  I figured that I would avoid the licensing changes by only going to 8.6.2.  We are a small organization (under 300 users) and my primary motivation for upgrading is to remain on a supported version.  I’ll read up more on moving to version 9 instead.

Fred

From: Ryan Ratliff (rratliff) [mailto:rratliff at cisco.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2013 8:39 PM
To: Stephen Welsh
Cc: Fred Hunt; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net<mailto:cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Migrating from CUCM 7.1.3 to CUCM 8.6.2

+1

Jump to 9.1(2) is where you want to be.

-Ryan

On Aug 15, 2013, at 5:11 PM, Stephen Welsh <stephen.welsh at unifiedfx.com<mailto:stephen.welsh at unifiedfx.com>> wrote:

Hi Fred,

Although you mention 8.6.2, Cisco have a big promotion called "Drive to 9” that you should take a close look at (if not already), in particular they have numerous upgrade options in particular some direct methods (jump) and tools that can simplify the whole experience.

Have a look at the community page:

https://communities.cisco.com/community/technology/collaboration/uc/migration

The following video gives you a good overview CUCM upgrade procedures:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djwErds_FDE

Also,
Cisco’s own Akhil Behl (author of "Securing Cisco IP Telephony”) and myself are hosting a series of webinars on Endpoint Security and Compliance. We shall be sharing some information that will relate to your upgrade, so if you have the time register for the session(s), details below.

Thanks

Stephen Welsh

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On 15 Aug 2013, at 21:56, Fred Hunt <FHunt at erdman.com<mailto:FHunt at erdman.com>> wrote:

I’m interested in migrating to CUCM 8.6.2 running on VMs considering that 7.1.x is getting closer to the end of support.  I’ve been working to determine the appropriate process to follow, but have a question that is not addressed in the documentation that I reviewed.  Both of our current servers are model 7835-H2, which is only supported for use in a bridge upgrade, not for production use.  The system requirements for 8.6.x call for 4 GB RAM and 146 GB disks.  Our servers currently have 2 GB RAM and 72 GB disks.  Will I be able to use these servers for the bridge upgrade even though they don’t meet these requirements?
Thanks for any input.
Fred Hunt
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