Migration from CUCM 6.0 to 8.5

[alaayehya]

I have CUCM 6.0 installed on physical machine.Now we changed the scenario and we installed CUCM 8.5 on virtual machine.I need to migrate from CUCM 6.0 to 8.5 first can I do that directly and how?

can I made backup for CUCM 6.0 and restore it on CUCM 8.5?

what options do I have and what solutions you can provide to fit this requirement?

[skilambi]

Have you seen this link? It has the steps you need

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/virtual/servers.html

See here for direct upgrade paths, as long as you are at 6.1(4) or higher, you can jump directly to 8.5 or 8.6

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/compat/ccmcompmatr.html#wp43011

Thanks

Srini