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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:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>If you have the resources available (time and/or money), my preference is to migrate the environment to an offline environment. If you have the compute resources do it there, or if not some type of Lab a Service (LaaS). Maybe use Veeam to migrate virtual machines, if you are already virtual (make sure to sure mac addresses to manual prior to copying).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Then you need to determine what you time frame is.. can you lose a few days of: cdr’s, historical reports, etc. Migrating VM’s between environment would need to be worked out. However, that allows you to identify any issues, develop a realistic timeframe for each aspect of the upgrade process. Most importantly, it allows a lot of the work to be done not in the middle of the night.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Dennis Heim | Collaboration Solutions Architect</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>World Wide Technology, Inc. | +1 314-212-1814<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><a href="https://twitter.com/CollabSensei"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=124 height=25 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01CFF8C5.760EA230" alt=twitter></span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><a href="xmpp:dennis.heim@wwt.com"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=95 height=28 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.png@01CFF8C5.760EA230" alt=chat></span></a><a href="tel:+13142121814"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=95 height=28 id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image003.png@01CFF8C5.760EA230" alt=Phone></span></a><a href="sip:dennis.heim@wwt.com"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=95 height=28 id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image004.png@01CFF8C5.760EA230" alt=video></span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> cisco-voip [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Anthony Holloway<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 04, 2014 11:37 PM<br><b>To:</b> Jason Aarons (AM); cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [cisco-voip] UCCX 8.5.1sr3 to sr4 to Refresh Upgrade 10.5.1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Wow. Are you going MCS to UCS too? If not, I'm doing that exact upgrade very soon and no documentation I have reviewed indicated how long upgrades would take, let alone 5 hours. Right now my plan has a time budget of 3 hours for the same, which does not include moving ISOs to the datastore (I like doing local upgrades) nor upgrading clients.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Which portion is taking 5 hours? Could you break it down by task for us? E.g., L2 to SU4, Switch Version to SU4, RU COP, RU to 10.5, Switch Version to 10.5.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Did you disable IO Throttling first?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Based on my research here are the summary steps to this exact upgrade (sans client upgrades):<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>1. Upload ISOs to DataStore<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>2. Disable IO Throttle on Publisher<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>3. Mount 8.5(1)SU4 ISO<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>4. Upgrade Publisher to 8.5(1)SU4<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>5. Switch Version to 8.5(1)SU4<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>6. Patch Publisher with RU COP<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>7. Shutdown Publisher<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>8. Modify VM Settings: RAM from 4GB to 8GB<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>9. Power On Publisher<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>10. Mount 10.5(1)SU1 ISO<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>11. Upgrade Publisher to 10.5(1)SU1<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>12. Switch Version to 10.5(1)SU1<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue Nov 04 2014 at 11:04:24 PM Jason Aarons (AM) <<a href="mailto:jason.aarons@dimensiondata.com" target="_blank">jason.aarons@dimensiondata.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>One UCCX node in ha pair 5 hours doing upgrades...it would be more enjoyable watching paint dry...there has got to be a better method in the future for L2 upgrades than this..<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:6.0pt;color:#575757'>Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE Smartphone<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<br>cisco-voip mailing list<br><a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net" target="_blank">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</a><br><a href="https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip" target="_blank">https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></body></html>