[cisco-voip] CUCM upgrade from 10.5 to 11.5

Fri Jan 18 16:04:10 EST 2019

Not sure, but let us know once you talk with your AWS / VMware sales team.

If you need one, let me know and I'll put you in touch :)

On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 3:01 PM Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca> wrote:

> I wonder if there are additional services you could subscribe to. Front it
> with VPN/IP extension service so the vSwitch can be configured with any
> VLAN that the extra layer offers.
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> *From:* Charles Goldsmith <wokka at justfamily.org>
> *Sent:* Friday, January 18, 2019 3:51 PM
> *To:* Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca>
> *Cc:* Matthew Collins <mcollins at block.co.uk>; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> *Subject:* Re: [cisco-voip] CUCM upgrade from 10.5 to 11.5
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> From what I understand, you cannot extend your IP, it's IP's assigned from
> AWS.  At least for public facing.  I'm assuming you can spin up another
> vswitch on the vsphere side and have private IP's, just like we can locally.
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> On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 2:48 PM Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca> wrote:
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> Hmmm, in actuality, VMware on AWS seems like it will be the best
> replacement for a physical stack of bare metal servers for temporary use.
> As long as the IP address space was the same, you could simply shut them
> down and export after the migration was complete.
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> Side question…
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> Anyone know how that works? Can you extend your IP address space into AWS
> without much effort?
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> *Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.* | Senior Analyst
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> Computing and Communications Services | University of Guelph
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> Room 037 Animal Science & Nutrition Bldg | 50 Stone Rd E | Guelph, ON |
> N1G 2W1
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> 519-824-4120 Ext. 56354 | lelio at uoguelph.ca
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> www.uoguelph.ca/ccs | @UofGCCS on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook
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> [image: University of Guelph Cornerstone with Improve Life tagline]
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> *From:* Charles Goldsmith <wokka at justfamily.org>
> *Sent:* Friday, January 18, 2019 3:12 PM
> *To:* Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca>
> *Cc:* Matthew Collins <mcollins at block.co.uk>; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> *Subject:* Re: [cisco-voip] CUCM upgrade from 10.5 to 11.5
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> If you are one of my customers, I can arrange that.  Do we have a web page
> where you can just go sign up, no.  But there are services that let you
> rent bare metal servers.
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> VMware and AWS are teaming up to rent you vsphere on AWS bare metal.
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> On Jan 18, 2019, at 1:45 PM, Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca> wrote:
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> This should be a signal to professional services orgs out there to rent
> out UCS systems for offline upgrades. :)
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> *-sent from mobile device-*
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> *Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.* | Senior Analyst
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> Computing and Communications Services | University of Guelph
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> Room 037 Animal Science & Nutrition Bldg | 50 Stone Rd E | Guelph, ON |
> N1G 2W1
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> 519-824-4120 Ext. 56354 <519-824-4120;56354> | lelio at uoguelph.ca
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> www.uoguelph.ca/ccs | @UofGCCS on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook
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> On Jan 18, 2019, at 5:24 AM, Matthew Collins <mcollins at block.co.uk> wrote:
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> Agree with Lelio but sometimes parallel upgrade are just not possible.
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> I’ve done 3 x 10.5 to 11.6 direct upgrade recently any only had one issue
> that wasn’t directly related to the upgrade. Other than that they have been
> pretty smooth.
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> In your pre-checks don’t just check DB replication but also CUC and UCCX
> replication on the respective servers (utils uccx/cuc dbreplication
> status). Plus check from the pub and sub as on a CUC upgrade recently it
> kept failing, Turned out CUC replication wasn’t set up correctly. Ran the
> command from the Pub and it stated everything was good, Ran from the Sub
> said it was failed. Ended up re-building the CUC Sub. The issue came about
> from a host name change years back and some of the tables where not updated
> on the sub.
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> Also double check the memory requirements. As 11.x requires 2 extra gig
> most of the OVA’s.
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> Upgrade timings going from 10.5 to 11.5/6
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> Memory upgrade where completed prior to upgrades.
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> CUCM Upgrade Pub 90 Mins 7.5k OVA
> CUCM Upgrade Subs 60 Mins
> IM&P Upgrade Pub 70 Mins 5K OVA
> IM&P Upgrade Sub 50 Mins
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> CUCM Switch Versions Pub 40 Mins
> CUCM Switch Versions Subs 30 Mins
> IM&P Switch Versions Pub 30 Mins
> IM&P Switch Versions Sub 30 Mins
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> UCCX Upgrade Pub 80 Mins – 300 Agent OVA
> UCCX Upgrade Sub 60 Mins
> UCCX Switch Versions Pub 45 Mins
> UCCX Switch Versions Sub 30 Mins
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> Regards
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> Matthew Collins
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> *From:* cisco-voip <cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net> *On Behalf Of *Lelio
> Fulgenzi
> *Sent:* 17 January 2019 16:37
> *To:* SK <cciecollab2017 at gmail.com>; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> *Subject:* Re: [cisco-voip] CUCM upgrade from 10.5 to 11.5
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> I will say one thing, if you have the opportunity to duplicate the
> environment in an off-line network and perform the upgrades there, then
> your migration will basically be downtime involved with shutting down old
> servers and turning up new servers. This is not trivial, by any stretch of
> the imagination. However, once you put some thought into it, I think you’ll
> find this method extremely valuable.
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> You work out all the kinks in the offline network and repeat until you are
> satisfied.
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> You’ll need a couple of things to make this work, namely, a change freeze
> window and the “pre 8.0” enterprise parameter.
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> We’ve done this twice now and it’s worked like a charm.
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> I would hate to do upgrades on live systems.
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> Lelio
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> *Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.* | Senior Analyst
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> Computing and Communications Services | University of Guelph
>
> Room 037 Animal Science & Nutrition Bldg | 50 Stone Rd E | Guelph, ON |
> N1G 2W1
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> 519-824-4120 Ext. 56354 | lelio at uoguelph.ca
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> www.uoguelph.ca/ccs | @UofGCCS on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook
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> *From:* cisco-voip <cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net> *On Behalf Of *SK
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 17, 2019 10:48 AM
> *To:* cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> *Subject:* [cisco-voip] CUCM upgrade from 10.5 to 11.5
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> We are planning upgrade for our CUCM - CUC -UCCX platform from 10.5 to
> 11.5 soon  . UCCX will be on 11.6.2 mostly .
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> I will appreciate any pointers on known bugs / challenges .
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> Thank you .
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