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

[Ted Nugent]

Perfect that is exactly what I wanted to hear Ryan. Thank you!


On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Ryan Ratliff (rratliff) <
rratliff at cisco.com> wrote:

>  To my knowledge we've never actually removed support for any phone in
> CUCM.
>
>  For the 79x0 phones we definitely support them in 9.1.  We just fixed a
> 9.x bug related to CFA on shared lines that only affected these phones.
> As you pointed out the phones themselves are end of SW maintenance so
> you'll get limited troubleshooting and no bug fixes on them but the CUCM
> side is very much alive and well.
>
>  -Ryan
>
>  On Aug 19, 2013, at 9:10 PM, Ted Nugent <tednugent73 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  So a couple things I found...
>
> http://tools.cisco.com/ITDIT/vtgsca/VTGServlet
> Shows support for 79x0G for 8.6 but not 9.x
>
>
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/docs/voice_ip_comm/uc_system/unified/communications/system/versions/IPTMtrix.html
> Doesn't show anything other than 79x1 as far back as 6.x
>
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/compat/ccmcompmatr1.pdf
> Lists a default load for 79x0G which would lead you to beleive it is
> supported.
>
>
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/voicesw/ps6788/phones/ps379/end_of_life_notice_c51-574072.html
> Lists EO SW Maintenance  2011 and EO HW Support 2015
>
> None of this paints a clear picture and I can see how some may be confused
> attempting to interpret this.
>
> Any one have anything more concrete for 79x0 support for 9.x+... Love to
> hear from Cisco on this as to what the "official" unofficial stance is...
> :-)
>
> Thanks
> Ted
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Ted Nugent <tednugent73 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Interesting.... I'm actually taking the word of one of our senior
>> presales engineers.... going to have to research that myself and find out
>> where he is getting his information and/or why he's been preaching this...
>> thanks for pointing this out this could save some deals for sure.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Matthew Loraditch <
>> MLoraditch at heliontechnologies.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  It does, I have plenty on 9.1 already.  Granted it’s supported in that
>>> they work, not that TAC will do anything for you if a problem is isolated
>>> to be in those models. That however has been the same for a while,
>>> including 8.6, so I’m not sure what documentation you’ve been reading but
>>> it’s quite wrong. If you are a partner or in CUG his has been addressed in
>>> a couple of different briefings about 9.1.****
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>>> *From:* cisco-voip [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] *On
>>> Behalf Of *Mike
>>>  *Sent:* Monday, August 19, 2013 5:34 PM
>>>  *To:* 'Ted Nugent'; 'Fred Hunt'
>>>
>>> *Cc:* cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
>>> *Subject:* Re: [cisco-voip] Migrating from CUCM 7.1.3 to CUCM 8.6.2****
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   ** **
>>>
>>> I thought 9.1 supported 7940/60 phones?****
>>>
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>>>
>>> *From:* cisco-voip [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net<cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net>]
>>> *On Behalf Of *Ted Nugent
>>> *Sent:* Monday, August 19, 2013 4:46 PM
>>> *To:* Fred Hunt
>>> *Cc:* cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
>>> *Subject:* Re: [cisco-voip] Migrating from CUCM 7.1.3 to CUCM 8.6.2****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> We've proposed "drive to 9.x" to many customers recently and the biggest
>>> argument against this that we've hit was that most of our clients are
>>> running 79x0 phones which will not be supported, all of these clients
>>> budgeted for the upgrade, UCS and professional services but not the phones,
>>> even with incentives from Cisco this has been a giant hurdle. Most have
>>> decided to stop at 8.6 and will budget for phones next year.****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Fred Hunt <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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