Use Prime Collaboration Deployment (PCD) for upgrades?

tachyon05 · ‎12-04-2018

I have 3 UCS C220 M3S servers running various UCS VMs such as CUCM, CUC and CER version 9.1. I need to upgrade them to 11.5. Looks like the new method is to use Prime Collaboration Deployment (PCD). Is this recommended for a small environment like mine where there are only 1 or 2 Subs for each Pub, and we only upgrade once every few years. Thanks

Jaime Valencia · ‎12-04-2018

No, I'd recommend you do the manual upgrade without PCD for such a small environment, if you were going to migrate CUCM to new HW while upgrading, then I'd suggest PCD.

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tachyon05 · ‎12-04-2018

Thanks Jamie, understood. In fact, I watched a few videos online, including what may be your youtube videos on CUCM/CUPS 8.6 PCD Migration to CUCM/IM&P 11.0.x. It does look PCD is a good tool to use if I do migrations and upgrade regularly, but no in my case. Thanks for the confirmation.