<div dir="ltr">Personally, I'd wait and do the bios/cimc and vmware until after the upgrade. Otherwise, I'd want to test 9.x on 6 in a lab to make sure there are no gotchas, but personally, I'd rather stay on a supported platform, in case you do run into issues and need TACs assistance.<div><br></div><div>I also wouldn't change linux type until the upgrade guide tells you, and keep in mind, you may need to redo the vmnic drivers, depending on how old the OVA was that built the system, the 10.x upgrade and higher has you changing to vmxnet drivers.</div><div><br></div><div>At what version did we get the partition alignment? Can't remember if that was 9.x or 10.x, but if it's not on 9.x, that could also be a concern, depending on what OVA originally built the system.</div><div><br></div><div>Just my $0.03 worth</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 6:14 PM, Brian V <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bvanbens@gmail.com" target="_blank">bvanbens@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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</p><p class="MsoNormal">UC and UCCX upgrade sequencing question.<span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Customer has CUCM/CUC/IMP 9.1 and UCCX 9.0.2
SU2 running on
ESXi 5.5. Plan is to upgrade all UC apps to 11.5.<span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I was planning on a separate maintenance
window, before any
UC upgrades, to patch BIOS on UCS-C servers and upgrade to Cisco
provided
package of ESXi 6.0 Update 3.<span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I checked the docWiki and see that UCCX 9.0.2
and IMP 9.1
don't officially support ESXi 6.0<span>
</span>How
concerned should I be if I upgrade to ESXi6 and run on it for a
few weeks with
the 9.x versions while we stage out the other UC upgrades?<span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> I was planning on checking and setting each
VM NOT to automatically
upgrade the VMtools on boot.<span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">During this time I'm also planning to install
the v3Keys COP
files, free disk space cop, then shut down and modify the VM
guest settings
with RAM and Linux type.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Also planning to use the manual process of
editing the .vmx
file to change the LAN card to VMXNET3.<span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then fire up all the UC Guests, still at 9.x
with ESXi 6.0 and
upgrade to 11.5 over the course of a few weeks during a couple
of maintenance
windows.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Does anyone have any feedback for me with
this plan
regarding running on ESXi 6.x?<span> </span>Anyone
have any recent experience?<span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Trying to avoid another maintenance window,
post UC 11.5
upgrades, just to do ESXi upgrade.<span>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks</p>
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