[cisco-voip] UCCX 8.5.1sr3 to sr4 to Refresh Upgrade 10.5.1

[Anthony Holloway]

Thanks for taking the time to put some numbers next to these tasks.  It
looks like this really is a ~5 hour ordeal.

Jason, care to share a recap of how it went?

On Wed Nov 05 2014 at 8:08:02 PM Justin Steinberg <jsteinberg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> i'll take a stab at time estimates.  that being said, i have heard of
> switch-versions taking much longer or sitting at SELINUX loading for longer
> than the typical 15-20 minutes.
>
> checking for existing snapshots before doing anything is really important.
>   if there are snapshots that someone left on their from the past, it will
> most likely completely hose the upgrade times and make the system extremely
> slow.
>
> 1. Upload ISOs to DataStore
> 2. Disable IO Throttle on Publisher
> 3. Mount 8.5(1)SU4 ISO
> 4. Upgrade Publisher to 8.5(1)SU4    45 - 60 minutes
> 5. Switch Version to 8.5(1)SU4 60 minutes (includes switch version
> process, reboot, SELINUX loading, services startup)
> 6. Patch Publisher with RU COP 5 minutes
> 7. Shutdown Publisher 10 minutes
> 8. Modify VM Settings: RAM from 4GB to 8GB
> 9. Power On Publisher 15 minutes
> 10. Mount 10.5(1)SU1 ISO
> 11. Upgrade Publisher to 10.5(1)SU1  45-60 minutes
> 12. Switch Version to 10.5(1)SU1 60 minutes (includes switch version
> process, reboot, SELINUX loading, services startup)
> 13. Rerun the CAD Client Configuration Tool (10 minutes)
>
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 12:36 AM, Anthony Holloway <
> avholloway+cisco-voip at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Wow.  Are you going MCS to UCS too?  If not, I'm doing that exact upgrade
>> very soon and no documentation I have reviewed indicated how long upgrades
>> would take, let alone 5 hours.  Right now my plan has a time budget of 3
>> hours for the same, which does not include moving ISOs to the datastore (I
>> like doing local upgrades) nor upgrading clients.
>>
>> Which portion is taking 5 hours?  Could you break it down by task for
>> us?  E.g., L2 to SU4, Switch Version to SU4, RU COP, RU to 10.5, Switch
>> Version to 10.5.
>>
>> Did you disable IO Throttling first?
>>
>> Based on my research here are the summary steps to this exact upgrade
>> (sans client upgrades):
>>
>> 1. Upload ISOs to DataStore
>> 2. Disable IO Throttle on Publisher
>> 3. Mount 8.5(1)SU4 ISO
>> 4. Upgrade Publisher to 8.5(1)SU4
>> 5. Switch Version to 8.5(1)SU4
>> 6. Patch Publisher with RU COP
>> 7. Shutdown Publisher
>> 8. Modify VM Settings: RAM from 4GB to 8GB
>> 9. Power On Publisher
>> 10. Mount 10.5(1)SU1 ISO
>> 11. Upgrade Publisher to 10.5(1)SU1
>> 12. Switch Version to 10.5(1)SU1
>>
>> On Tue Nov 04 2014 at 11:04:24 PM Jason Aarons (AM) <
>> jason.aarons at dimensiondata.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  One UCCX node in ha pair 5 hours doing upgrades...it would be more
>>> enjoyable watching paint dry...there has got to be a better method in the
>>> future for L2 upgrades than this..
>>>
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