[cisco-voip] CUCM upgrade from 10.5 to 11.5

Sat Jan 19 11:36:47 EST 2019

If you want to connect from the outside then rig up a virtual router such
as a CSR that conndects to both the private and elastic side, establish a
L2L VPN tunnel to the elastic IP, route the private IPs across the VPN.

On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 9:31 AM Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca> wrote:

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> Very interesting!
>
> Having private IPs on a secondary switch is great. But if I can’t connect,
> then I can’t do full tests. We end up doing some mock migrations and stuff.
> Also testing phones, etc.
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> But hey, still worth a shot!
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> On Jan 18, 2019, at 5:05 PM, Dave Goodwin <dave.goodwin at december.net>
> wrote:
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> If you want to bring your own IPs to AWS instances instead of using their
> Elastic IPs, you can do that now from what I understand:
>
> https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/10/announcing-the-general-availability-of-bring-your-own-ip-for-amazon-virtual-private-cloud/
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> I don’t know if that functionality is compatible with VMC-AWS or not.
> Also, I’d think just like Charles suggested that you could use your own IPs
> on a private vSwitch or VM network.
>
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 4:04 PM Charles Goldsmith <wokka at justfamily.org>
> wrote:
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>> 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 :)
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>> On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 3:01 PM Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca> wrote:
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>>> 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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>>> ---
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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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 2:48 PM Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Side question…
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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>>> *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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> VMware and AWS are teaming up to rent you vsphere on AWS bare metal.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 18, 2019, at 1:45 PM, Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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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>>> On Jan 18, 2019, at 5:24 AM, Matthew Collins <mcollins at block.co.uk>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Agree with Lelio but sometimes parallel upgrade are just not possible.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Also double check the memory requirements. As 11.x requires 2 extra gig
>>> most of the OVA’s.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Upgrade timings going from 10.5 to 11.5/6
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Memory upgrade where completed prior to upgrades.
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Matthew Collins
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> You work out all the kinks in the offline network and repeat until you
>>> are satisfied.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> You’ll need a couple of things to make this work, namely, a change
>>> freeze window and the “pre 8.0” enterprise parameter.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> We’ve done this twice now and it’s worked like a charm.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I would hate to do upgrades on live systems.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Lelio
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> *Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.* | Senior Analyst
>>>
>>> Computing and Communications Services | University of Guelph
>>>
>>> Room 037 Animal Science & Nutrition Bldg | 50 Stone Rd E | Guelph, ON |
>>> N1G 2W1
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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 .
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I will appreciate any pointers on known bugs / challenges .
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you .
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