C200 M2 initial Inatallation

[alap84]

i have a scenario

customer currently using 7816 x 2 as publisher and subscriber and want to upgrade on 8.6 with C200 M2 hardware

question is with minimum downtime should i do 6.1.2 on ucs restore the existing backup than 6.1.4 than 8.6.

when doing 6.1.2 first, have to upload any license or not (VM license) ??

any good document on this ... pls share

also UCS come with preinstalled EXSi or not ?? any idea

[Gajanan Pande]

Hi Zubair,

Installing CUCM on UCS earlier than version 8.0.2 is not supported reference, hence you will have to first upgrade your exisintg CUCM to 8.0.2 on existing MCS box ( provided it supports CUCM 8.x, reference ), then take a backup & restore it on the freshly installed CUCM 8.0.2 on UCS. Then ultimately upgrade to 8.6.

UCS box doesnt come with ESXi pre-installed.

GP.

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[alap84]

i opend tac case before this post ...

n he said that u can do this in this way .... confusions now !

[Gajanan Pande]

may I have the TAC case number ?

GP.

[alap84]

623002485

[Gajanan Pande]

Thanks, looks like the TAC engineer agreed with this discussion & corrected.

GP.

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[alap84]

He agreed when presented. But this makes things confusing

Any guide to do so

Its means ucs doesn't support old versions. Wht abt the licenses when migrating to 8.0

This  is what we agreed with customer after getting tac answer n now its  somethng different. Seems community support is more strong thn TAC  itself

Confused

[Gajanan Pande]

Hi Zubair,

Sorry to see the confusion but concluding about TAC based on one case would be unfair.

Well, yes UCS ( which is meant to be used for virtualized deployment of UC apps ) is not supported for earlier versions than 8.x & the earlier reference confirms the same too.

License reissuing during hardware migration should not be a problem. Please work with licensing@cisco.com or Cisco TAC itself to get it done for you.

Regards

GP.

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[alap84]

Scenario 1

what if i took one existing hardware 7816... make it as a publisher in offline mode, upgrade it to 6.1.4 to 8.6 ... again take the backup and restore on UCS ... is it possible to restore on freshly intalled VM

Scnario 2

ask customer tht we will install freshly, either to manually enter each and every profile, settings or via BAT export/ import

is it possible ?

hope you understand my point of view