<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">In general you should be fine there. Make sure you do your phone loads prior to the upgrade so you don't get stuck with all the phones upgrading when you are trying to come back into production.<div><br></div><div>If you can do everything with the UCS cluster in a dead-net it will be less stressful watching that DRS restore go since you can leave the MCS servers up.</div><div><br></div><div>I sincerely hope you aren't planning to stay on 8.0(3) for any length of time. If you are a partner you should look into the migration scenarios for the Drive 2 Nine program (<a href="https://communities.cisco.com/community/partner/collaboration/migration">https://communities.cisco.com/community/partner/collaboration/migration</a>) for more info and how 9.1(2) will make this upgrade process easier for you. There is a customer portal with similar info in the works.</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On May 4, 2013, at 2:41 PM, Reto Gassmann <<a href="mailto:voip@mrga.ch">voip@mrga.ch</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div lang="DE-CH" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US">Hello group<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US">We plan the upgrade from our CUCM 7.1(3a) Cluster (8 Servers) to 8.0(3). After the upgrade we also want to virtualize the cluster from MCS Servers to UCS. To reduce downtime we plan to do the upgrade with the following steps:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span lang="EN-US"><span>1.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Setup a new CUCM 8.0(3) cluster on UCS with different IP addresses<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span lang="EN-US"><span>2.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Upgrade CUCM 7.1(3a) to 8.0(3) on MCS<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span lang="EN-US"><span>3.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Take backup (DRS) of upgraded CUCM 8.0(3) on MCS<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span lang="EN-US"><span>4.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Shutdown MCS Cluster<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span lang="EN-US"><span>5.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Change IP addresses to match old IP addresses on UCS cluster<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: -18pt; "><span lang="EN-US"><span>6.<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Restore CUCM 8.0(3) on UCS servers<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US">Can I do the upgrade as described or do I run into any issues?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US">If I want to upgrade the IP Phone (7960 / 7961) firmware a few days before the upgrade where do I have to install the firmware software package, just on the TFTP server or on all servers in the cluster?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US">Any comments are welcome.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US"> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US">Regards Reto<o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: 17px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p></div>_______________________________________________<br>cisco-voip mailing list<br><a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</a><br><a href="https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip</a><br></div></div><br></div></body></html>