cucm restore test

[bluesea2010]

Hi,

I have backed one existing cluster , (one pub and sub) .(192.168.2.x)

Now I made another vm for cucm (only one machine ) .(192.168.10.x) I just want to do a restore test

,But I don't want the same ip (192.168.2.x)

How can I do this 

Thanks

[Jonathan Schulenberg]

You can’t. All platform/OS details must be identical to perform a restore. You’ll have to build an “island” environment with the same subnet, DNS, & NTP (the installer validates all of this during initial install) before you can restore. Personally, I just spin up a Catalyst 8000v virtual router and spoof all of those services locally from the router loopback interfaces.

[Roger Kallberg]

Simple answer, you can't. To do a restore the name and IP information needs to be exactly the same. This is outlined in details in documentation. If you need to do a restore test you should do that on a VM that resides in an isolated network so that you can have the same IP address on it as your production instance.

[Ibrahim AlQumairi]

IP Address, hostname, and version of CUCM should be matched before restoring the process 

So as @Roger Kallberg says that you can do the test for restoring in an isolated network