[cisco-voip] Testing Disaster Recovery of 7.x to a VM.

[Robin Clayton]

Wooo...

Changed the hostname and it rebooted, now restoring the files.

So either the hostname "is" the issue or the reboot restarted other services.

Thanks to Ryan...


Now just need to check again and write up the procedure..

Cheers

Rob


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Robin Clayton

Senior I.T. Technician
Richard Rose Federation
Richard Rose Central Academy
Victoria Place
Carlisle
Cumbria
CA1 1LY

Tel: 01228 822075
www: www.rrfa.org.uk


From: Ryan Ratliff [mailto:rratliff at cisco.com]
Sent: 01 February 2013 16:10
To: Robin Clayton
Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Testing Disaster Recovery of 7.x to a VM.

Yes, as long as the basic DRS requirements are met (hostname, IP, etc) then it should work.  It's not supported in any way, and you can't use this as a way to get to 8.x on a VM but if you are just looking play with things in a VM it should work.

-Ryan

On Feb 1, 2013, at 6:08 AM, Robin Clayton <Robin.Clayton at rrfa.org.uk<mailto:Robin.Clayton at rrfa.org.uk>> wrote:

Hi Ryan,

Thanks for the response,

So I should be able to restore the config from our running 7816 to the virtual ESX machine?

Cheers

Rob



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Robin Clayton

Senior I.T. Technician
Richard Rose Federation
Richard Rose Central Academy
Victoria Place
Carlisle
Cumbria
CA1 1LY

Tel: 01228 822075
www: www.rrfa.org.uk


From: Ryan Ratliff [mailto:rratliff at cisco.com<http://cisco.com/>]
Sent: 31 January 2013 16:57
To: Robin Clayton
Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net<mailto:cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Testing Disaster Recovery of 7.x to a VM.

Yes this should work, but as you said isn't supported.

The error you are getting means the DRS Master or Local services isn't reachable on CCM-NODE1.  If that's your publisher then make sure both of those are running, and try bouncing them if they are.   If that's the sub, then make sure you choose to restore only the server(s) that are built and configured as VMs.

-Ryan

On Jan 31, 2013, at 4:20 AM, Robin Clayton <Robin.Clayton at rrfa.org.uk<mailto:Robin.Clayton at rrfa.org.uk>> wrote:

CUCM 7.1.5.33900-10
ESXi 5

Dear All.

In the interest of forward planning and Disaster Recovery, I have been attempting to restore our weekly backup from CUCM  to a Virtual vMware ESXi host.

The host is built and on an identical version

It's networked away from the main network to prevent any ISSUES...

I can connect fine to the restore point , select the file, select to restore CCM, select the publisher node.

Then hit restore.

It immediately baulks with

"Error: At least one of the servers which was requested to be restored is not connected CCM-NODE1. This may be due to master or local Agent being down. ...."

I think the ipsec serials check out  and I have checked the Agents are running..

Has anyone else ever tried this, I know production only supports 8.x on vMware but thought it may at least be possible to do DR-Restore for testing...

Any ideas?

Rob





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Robin Clayton

Senior I.T. Technician
Richard Rose Federation
Richard Rose Central Academy
Victoria Place
Carlisle
Cumbria
CA1 1LY

Tel: 01228 822075
www: www.rrfa.org.uk



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