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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>Greetings all –<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#44546A'> My client recently purchased 2 x PAKs for CUCM servers. They have several physical host machines configured with ESX5.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#44546A'> My understanding of the difference with CUCM 9 is the ELM. Licenses are no longer tied to the MAC but are tied to some random characters generated by the ELM during the license file upload process.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>This is a lab environment so I want to be sure that I am advising them correctly on the impacts of the following actions:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#44546A'> Assuming that both PAKs are registered to the single ELM (currently they have a Pub and Sub – each of them running inside ESX 5 on the separate physical host machines)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#44546A'> 1 – what would be the impact if the SUB VM were physically migrated (via copying and moving ova file) to the physical machine hosting the Pub? My gut tells me no impact<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#44546A'> 2 – what would be the impact if the CUCM pub and ELM (co-existing on the Pub) were physically moved (via copying and moving ova file) to the physical machine hosting the Sub? My gut tells me no impact.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#44546A'> 3 – what would be the impact if the Sub were decommissioned and rebuilt as a Pub in a new cluster? My gut tells me that it would take TAC involvement to rehost the license<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#44546A'> 4 – what would be the impact if the Pub were decommissioned and rebuilt as a Pub in a new lab configuration? My gut tells me that it would also take TAC involvement to rehost the license<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dr. Jeffrey T. Girard (Jeff), PhD</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Colonel, United States Army (Retired)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Senior Network Engineer / VoIP Engineer - WireMeHappy.com</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>reply to: <a href="mailto:jeffrey.girard@wiremehappy.com">jeffrey.girard@wiremehappy.com</a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>(607)835-0406 (home office)</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>(845)764-1661 (mobile)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>(607)835-0458 (fax)</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>