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This should be a signal to professional services orgs out there to rent out UCS systems for offline upgrades. :)
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On Jan 18, 2019, at 5:24 AM, Matthew Collins <<a href="mailto:mcollins@block.co.uk">mcollins@block.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Agree with Lelio but sometimes parallel upgrade are just not possible.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I’ve done 3 x 10.5 to 11.6 direct upgrade recently any only had one issue that wasn’t directly related to the upgrade. Other than that they have been pretty smooth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">In your pre-checks don’t just check DB replication but also CUC and UCCX replication on the respective servers (utils uccx/cuc dbreplication status). Plus check from the pub and sub as on a CUC upgrade
recently it kept failing, Turned out CUC replication wasn’t set up correctly. Ran the command from the Pub and it stated everything was good, Ran from the Sub said it was failed. Ended up re-building the CUC Sub. The issue came about from a host name change
years back and some of the tables where not updated on the sub.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Also double check the memory requirements. As 11.x requires 2 extra gig most of the OVA’s.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Upgrade timings going from 10.5 to 11.5/6<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Memory upgrade where completed prior to upgrades.<br>
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CUCM Upgrade Pub 90 Mins 7.5k OVA<br>
CUCM Upgrade Subs 60 Mins<br>
IM&P Upgrade Pub 70 Mins 5K OVA<br>
IM&P Upgrade Sub 50 Mins<br>
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CUCM Switch Versions Pub 40 Mins <br>
CUCM Switch Versions Subs 30 Mins<br>
IM&P Switch Versions Pub 30 Mins<br>
IM&P Switch Versions Sub 30 Mins<br>
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UCCX Upgrade Pub 80 Mins – 300 Agent OVA<br>
UCCX Upgrade Sub 60 Mins<br>
UCCX Switch Versions Pub 45 Mins<br>
UCCX Switch Versions Sub 30 Mins<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> cisco-voip <<a href="mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net">cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Lelio Fulgenzi<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 17 January 2019 16:37<br>
<b>To:</b> SK <<a href="mailto:cciecollab2017@gmail.com">cciecollab2017@gmail.com</a>>;
<a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [cisco-voip] CUCM upgrade from 10.5 to 11.5<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I will say one thing, if you have the opportunity to duplicate the environment in an off-line network and perform the upgrades there, then your migration will basically be downtime involved with shutting down old servers
and turning up new servers. This is not trivial, by any stretch of the imagination. However, once you put some thought into it, I think you’ll find this method extremely valuable.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">You work out all the kinks in the offline network and repeat until you are satisfied.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">You’ll need a couple of things to make this work, namely, a change freeze window and the “pre 8.0” enterprise parameter.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We’ve done this twice now and it’s worked like a charm.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I would hate to do upgrades on live systems.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Lelio<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> | Senior Analyst<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> cisco-voip <</span><a href="mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net"><span lang="EN-US">cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net</span></a><span lang="EN-US">>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>SK<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 17, 2019 10:48 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> </span><a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net"><span lang="EN-US">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [cisco-voip] CUCM upgrade from 10.5 to 11.5<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We are planning upgrade for our CUCM - CUC -UCCX platform from 10.5 to 11.5 soon . UCCX will be on 11.6.2 mostly .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I will appreciate any pointers on known bugs / challenges .<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Thank you . <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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