[cisco-voip] Migrating from CUCM 7.1 & Unity to BE6000

[Tim Smith]

Hey mate,

The main benefit of BE6k is really the packaging and bundling (in my opinion)
It has come a long way since the beginning, and the current 9.X version is quite cool.

The good bits..

-          It's really just CUCM, CUCXN, UCCX, IM&P (depending on the options you go for)

-          It's all on tested ref config (with matching OVA's) to make it easy to handle the VM part - i.e. it's really easy to spec. It just removes all the hassle for anyone that is not overly familiar with virtualization yet.

-          You include VM licensing and support (so it's all in the same price / package)

-          All the media is pre-loaded on the UCS data store for you (no messing with DVD's, or downloads)

-          VMWare ESXi hypervisor is pre-installed for you

-          There is some great documentation that ties everything together, and gives you some good step by steps

-          They give you the provisioning products (this bridges the gap from when you had a special BE version of CUCM and CUCXN with tighter integration)

-          As I said before, they are really just the individual components you know and love bundled together, you don't really need to know anything specific about BE6k as such

-          Other cool apps - VCS starter bundle, paging etc

The bad

-          Provisioning tools are not quite there yet for me. Hoping for improvements with 10. I think they are still too complicated for the target market

-          If you are in the US, you can do a fairly quick deployment with the provisioning tools, but outside US you would still need to customise, so I just configure the machines from scratch myself today

-          Install could still be more streamlined with templates or something, I'm sure they will be working on this already

In your case for migration...
Most of these benefits, are probably more around going to BE6k for first time rather than coming from CUCM, but they still probably apply

I would be very surprised if you could not use the standard physical to virtual migration path in this case.
i.e. build your virtual machines as mirror images of production environment, take DRS backup, restore to virtual environment (from 7 to 9 - this would be a jump upgrade)
CUCM in 6k is the same as a full CUCM (same with the other products) - this is not the same as BE3k or BE5k which are different builds / products.

Unity Connection also allows you to install 7 on virtual for upgrade purposes, and them upgrade to 9 (the original jump upgrade!)

If for some reason, you couldn't go that route, you could look at BAT export / imports for CUCM, and COBRAS for Unity Cxn.

Hope that helps!

Cheers,

Tim

From: cisco-voip [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Robin Clayton
Sent: Wednesday, 23 October 2013 1:43 AM
To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: [cisco-voip] Migrating from CUCM 7.1 & Unity to BE6000

Dear All.

CUCM 7.1.x
Unity 7.1.x

Is there a guide on migrating these to a BE6000 server retaining the configuration?

I looked but I could not find a guide.

Is there any advantage of the BE6000 over a UCS with CUCM and Unity installed on it?

The environment only require less than 200 phones.

Cheers
Rob





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




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