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If I were in your shoes the choice would be driven primarily by 1) features and 2) ease of upgrade. Since you already want to end up virtualized the jump upgrade will allow you to do the whole thing in VMs and not touch your MCS servers at all.
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<div>The licensing stuff is going to be done at some point anyway so take the hit now when you are already looking at an upgrade so you won't have to do it again in a few years when you are right back in this situation. You also have a big focus inside Cisco
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<div>On Aug 16, 2013, at 11:41 AM, Fred Hunt <<a href="mailto:FHunt@erdman.com">FHunt@erdman.com</a>></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Thanks Stephen and Ryan. I have attended some of the CUG webinars on upgrading to 9. I figured that I would avoid the licensing changes by only going to 8.6.2. We are a small organization
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Ryan Ratliff (rratliff) [<a href="mailto:rratliff@cisco.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">mailto:rratliff@cisco.com</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
<b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thursday, August 15, 2013 8:39 PM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Stephen Welsh<br>
<b>Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Fred Hunt;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [cisco-voip] Migrating from CUCM 7.1.3 to CUCM 8.6.2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jump to 9.1(2) is where you want to be.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On Aug 15, 2013, at 5:11 PM, Stephen Welsh <<a href="mailto:stephen.welsh@unifiedfx.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">stephen.welsh@unifiedfx.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Although you mention 8.6.2, Cisco have a big promotion called "Drive to 9” that you should take a close look at (if not already), in particular they have numerous upgrade options in particular some direct methods (jump) and tools that can simplify the whole
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Have a look at the community page:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://communities.cisco.com/community/technology/collaboration/uc/migration" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">https://communities.cisco.com/community/technology/collaboration/uc/migration</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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The following video gives you a good overview CUCM upgrade procedures:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Cisco’s own Akhil Behl (author of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>"Securing Cisco IP Telephony”</b>) and myself are hosting a series of webinars on Endpoint Security and Compliance. We shall be sharing some information that will relate to your
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<b><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">Enroll for Unified FX’s FREE Educational seminars on The Essentials of Endpoint Security & Compliance</span></b><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><br>
• Session 1: The Impact of Security by Default (5th Sept)<br>
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have a question that is not addressed in the documentation that I reviewed. Both of our current servers are model 7835-H2, which is only supported for use in a bridge upgrade, not for production use. The system requirements for 8.6.x call for 4 GB RAM and
146 GB disks. Our servers currently have 2 GB RAM and 72 GB disks. Will I be able to use these servers for the bridge upgrade even though they don’t meet these requirements?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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