[cisco-voip] CUCM upgrade from 10.5 to 11.5
Matthew Loraditch
MLoraditch at heliontechnologies.com
Mon Jan 21 08:28:06 EST 2019
You can use a USB drive in VMWare so it’s possible. I would need to be formatted right and mounted in esx.
It’s technically not supported but for testing purposes/etc it can be done.: https://www.virten.net/2016/11/usb-devices-as-vmfs-datastore-in-vsphere-esxi-6-5/
Matthew Loraditch
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From: cisco-voip <cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net> On Behalf Of Lelio Fulgenzi
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2019 8:22 AM
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Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] CUCM upgrade from 10.5 to 11.5
Can I copy this to USB? Would I have to somehow mount/format the portable file system?
I’m intrigued!
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On Jan 20, 2019, at 11:38 PM, Charles Goldsmith <wokka at justfamily.org<mailto:wokka at justfamily.org>> wrote:
Shut the VM down, ssh or console in, copy the directory. On Linux, it’s cp -R dir/ new-dir/
Of course, it’s easier to cd into the datastore
Once it’s copied, go into the vsphere client, browse the datastore into the new dir and import the vmx
I’ve done this to make backup copies in addition to DRS for an upgrade
On Jan 20, 2019, at 9:19 PM, Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca<mailto:lelio at uoguelph.ca>> wrote:
Yes - I was quite surprised with the amount of time exporting/importing requires. Especially because, as far as I know, there is no way to export to a locally attached storage then pop that out/in and import. It has to be done via vsphere client and pc. We ended up putting a laptop on the same switch to speed things up a bit.
I really wish there was a quicker way.
Note: were using local storage on all our be7h servers.
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On Jan 20, 2019, at 9:03 PM, James Andrewartha <jandrewartha at ccgs.wa.edu.au<mailto:jandrewartha at ccgs.wa.edu.au>> wrote:
For a major upgrade it seems pretty reasonable to me. I'd consider doing it just for testing even if I upgraded the production servers directly rather than shut them down and start up the upgraded ones. And if I was going to do a parallel upgrade, I'd probably upgrade once to test, then copy the production servers across again and do it for real. One thought that comes to mind is how quickly you can copy back the VMs from AWS to your production environment.
"Everybody has a testing environment. Some people are lucky enough enough to have a totally separate environment to run production in." https://twitter.com/stahnma/status/634849376343429120
On 21/01/19 09:52, Lelio Fulgenzi wrote:
Perhaps. But it’s an option.
My preference would be to use on premise resources to create the offline network. This part of the discussion was focused on how you could use VWC on AWS to accomplish this if you didn’t have resources. The CSR would, if it works, allow you to connect devices on prem to the offline servers to do a more complete testing. But it’s not entirely necessary.
It’s all what your more comfortable with, I guess. I’d rather double the amount of prep time to complete the upgrades offline in order to reduce the downtime to the production service. Especially when both CUCM and UCCX need to be upgraded simultaneously due to version compatibility.
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On Jan 20, 2019, at 8:23 PM, Anthony Holloway <avholloway+cisco-voip at gmail.com<mailto:avholloway+cisco-voip at gmail.com>> wrote:
Does this sound a tad over engineered for an upgrade to anyone else, or is it just me?
On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 3:28 PM Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca<mailto:lelio at uoguelph.ca>> wrote:
That sounds like exactly what I want to do!
Thx!
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On Jan 19, 2019, at 11:37 AM, Dave Goodwin <dave.goodwin at december.net<mailto:dave.goodwin at december.net>> wrote:
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<mailto:lelio at uoguelph.ca>> wrote:
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.
But hey, still worth a shot!
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Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A. | Senior Analyst
Computing and Communications Services | University of Guelph
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On Jan 18, 2019, at 5:05 PM, Dave Goodwin <dave.goodwin at december.net<mailto:dave.goodwin at december.net>> wrote:
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/
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<mailto:wokka at justfamily.org>> wrote:
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<mailto: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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Computing and Communications Services | University of Guelph
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From: Charles Goldsmith <wokka at justfamily.org<mailto:wokka at justfamily.org>>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2019 3:51 PM
To: Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca<mailto:lelio at uoguelph.ca>>
Cc: Matthew Collins <mcollins at block.co.uk<mailto:mcollins at block.co.uk>>; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net<mailto: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<mailto: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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From: Charles Goldsmith <wokka at justfamily.org<mailto:wokka at justfamily.org>>
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2019 3:12 PM
To: Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca<mailto:lelio at uoguelph.ca>>
Cc: Matthew Collins <mcollins at block.co.uk<mailto:mcollins at block.co.uk>>; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net<mailto: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<mailto: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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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
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On Jan 18, 2019, at 5:24 AM, Matthew Collins <mcollins at block.co.uk<mailto: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
Regards
Matthew Collins
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Sent: 17 January 2019 16:37
To: SK <cciecollab2017 at gmail.com<mailto:cciecollab2017 at gmail.com>>; cisco-voip at puck.nether.net<mailto: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
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Computing and Communications Services | University of Guelph
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Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2019 10:48 AM
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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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