<div dir="ltr">Thanks Brian.  That's exactly the kind of information I'm after.  I'm hoping someone can validate it with empirical evidence.<div><br></div><div>It worth mentioning the following, which I replied to another list user who direct messaged me, in regards to OVA settings during the upgrade.</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">According to the CUCM and CUC upgrade guides, you can change the OS before or after the upgrade.</span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Se the CUCM guide here where it states OS changes are a pre-upgrade task:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/upgrade/10_0_1/CUCM_BK_U4214F9D_00_upgrade-guide-cucm-100/CUCM_BK_U4214F9D_00_upgrade-guide-cucm-100_chapter_011.html#CUCM_TK_C9AFC8CC_00" target="_blank">http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/upgrade/10_0_1/CUCM_BK_U4214F9D_00_upgrade-guide-cucm-100/CUCM_BK_U4214F9D_00_upgrade-guide-cucm-100_chapter_011.html#CUCM_TK_C9AFC8CC_00</a></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">And here in the CUC guide where it's a post upgrade task:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/connection/10x/upgrade/guide/10xcucrugx/10xcucrug010.html#pgfId-1145799" target="_blank">http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/connection/10x/upgrade/guide/10xcucrugx/10xcucrug010.html#pgfId-1145799</a></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Interestingly enough, UCCX documentation has no mention of changing OS or Network Adapter.  Not in the Upgrade Guide, Release Notes, nor the OVA Read Me.  I have opened a request to have this reviewed, it might be a miss or it might be the way it is.</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Upgrade Guide</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/cust_contact/contact_center/crs/express_10_5/install/guide/UCCX_BK_C2650101_00_cisco-unified-contact-center-express.html">http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/cust_contact/contact_center/crs/express_10_5/install/guide/UCCX_BK_C2650101_00_cisco-unified-contact-center-express.html</a></font><br></div><div style><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style><font face="arial, sans-serif">Release Notes</font></div><div style><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/cust_contact/contact_center/crs/express_10_5/release/docs/UCCX_BK_UBDB029E_00_uccx-release-notes-105.html">http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/cust_contact/contact_center/crs/express_10_5/release/docs/UCCX_BK_UBDB029E_00_uccx-release-notes-105.html</a><br></font></div><div style><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.cisco.com/web/software/280840578/117186/UCCX_RN_10.5su1.pdf">http://www.cisco.com/web/software/280840578/117186/UCCX_RN_10.5su1.pdf</a><br></font></div><div style><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">OVA Read Me</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.cisco.com/web/software/283733053/114894/UCCX_v2.6_vmv8.ova_README.txt">http://www.cisco.com/web/software/283733053/114894/UCCX_v2.6_vmv8.ova_README.txt</a></font><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Brian Meade <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmeade90@vt.edu" target="_blank">bmeade90@vt.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I just got through updating our internal UCCX to 9.0.2(SU2) to get ESXi 5.5 support prior to migrating to our 5.5 infrastructure.<div><br></div><div>I'm not sure if anything really changed to support 5.5 though outside of the BU just finally testing it.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 12:25 PM, Anthony Holloway <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:avholloway+cisco-voip@gmail.com" target="_blank">avholloway+cisco-voip@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">All,<div><br></div><div>I'm planning an upgrade to UCCX 8.5(1)SU3 to 10.5(1)SU1 by way of 8.5(1)SU4.  My ESXi is on 4.1 and I am planning to upgrade it to 5.5.</div><div><br></div><div>The virtualization guide does not list ESXi 5.5 as supported for UCCX 8x.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Virtualization_for_Unified_CCX#Version_8.5.28x.29" target="_blank">http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Virtualization_for_Unified_CCX#Version_8.5.28x.29</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>And, the virtualization guide also does not list ESXi 4.1 as supported for UCCX 10x.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Virtualization_for_Unified_CCX#Version_10.5.28x.29" target="_blank">http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Virtualization_for_Unified_CCX#Version_10.5.28x.29</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>I am wondering if anyone has experience with this and if it really matters what order I do the upgrades in, considering that at the end of the maintenance window, I will be on UCCX 10.5(1)SU1 and ESXi 5.5; which is supported.</div><div><br></div><div>My biggest concern is with the UCCX upgrade to 8.5(1)SU4 halting because of a hardware/software compatibility check while on ESXi 5.5, or likewise, UCCX 10.5(1)SU1 halting because of ESXi 4.1.</div><div><br></div><div>This is also why the subject of this email says "UC Apps" and not "UCCX."  I would suspect all UC Apps (VOS based ones anyway) upgrade in the same manner, when it comes to hardware/software checks.</div><div><br></div><div>Actually, do UC Apps even check your version of ESXi?  Or do they just see "VMware" and the hardware resources allocated?</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you.<br></div><div></div></div>
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