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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I thought 6.1 is not supported in VMware? I don’t see anywhere in the document you linked to that says it would be okay.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Nate VanMaren<br>
<b>Sent:</b> April-23-12 9:13 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Erick Wellnitz; cisco-voip<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [cisco-voip] upgrade path question<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I don’t see anything wrong with the stated plan.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Here is the doc<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/install/8_6_1/cluster/clstr861.html">http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/install/8_6_1/cluster/clstr861.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net">cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net</a>
<a href="mailto:[mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net]">[mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net]</a>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Erick Wellnitz<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 23, 2012 9:08 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> cisco-voip<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [cisco-voip] upgrade path question<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Okay,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I was under the impression that the following wasn't supported but a Cisco partner put this in their upgrade plan for moving from 6.1.3 to 8.6(2a).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">“</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Install an exact VM copy of the current Call Manager including the ES/SRs on the new UCS Hardware.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Export a copy of the current Call Manager Publisher database and restore it on the new VM. Change the</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">IP Address of the new virtualized Publisher to match the new IP scheme and clean up any IP Addresses &</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Service URLs that pointed towards the old environment. Proceed to upgrade the Publisher to version</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">8.0(3) then to 8.6(2a).”</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I've never seen this in any of the supported upgrade methods in any Cisco document. It would also seem you'd run into licensing issues. I also thought someone here wanted to
do something similar and the finding was the database would still be marked as unsuppoted. Maybe I'm remembering incorrectly.</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Thanks!</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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