<p dir="ltr">Sounds like Jason is doing HA. Anthony I didn't see any sub listed in your tasks, so I think that accounts for some portion of the difference.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">The funny part is that this is the replicated offline environment. Once we test scripts, databases, etc then production gets migrated
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<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"> Anthony Holloway [mailto:<a href="mailto:avholloway%2Bcisco-voip@gmail.com" target="_blank">avholloway+cisco-voip@gmail.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 5, 2014 10:47 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Heim, Dennis; Jason Aarons (AM); <a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net" target="_blank">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [cisco-voip] UCCX 8.5.1sr3 to sr4 to Refresh Upgrade 10.5.1<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">You're on to something here, however, resources such as time and money are not always in abundance. Sometimes, you're asked to do things as quickly and as cheaply as possible. And by sometimes, I mean most
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed Nov 05 2014 at 6:55:04 AM Heim, Dennis <<a href="mailto:Dennis.Heim@wwt.com" target="_blank">Dennis.Heim@wwt.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<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).</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<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.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 04, 2014 11:37 PM<br>
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cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [cisco-voip] UCCX 8.5.1sr3 to sr4 to Refresh Upgrade 10.5.1</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<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.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<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.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Did you disable IO Throttling first?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Based on my research here are the summary steps to this exact upgrade (sans client upgrades):<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">3. Mount 8.5(1)SU4 ISO<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">8. Modify VM Settings: RAM from 4GB to 8GB<u></u><u></u></p>
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<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:<u></u><u></u></p>
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