How migrate vsom7.2.1 to vsom 7.9 ?

[Luis Fernando Casanova]

I have a deploy vsom 7.2.1 with many server and many cameras and  I want migrate to vsom 7.9 this is posible?

[joshua.r.landry]

Hi Luis,

Depending on how old your servers are, you may be limited to how high you are able to go.

Look at the 7.8 release notes:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/physical_security/video_surveillance/network/vsm/release_notes/7_8_0/vsm_rn_7_8_0.html#pgfId-288034

I believe this is the last version to support MSP servers (based on the version you are currently running, taking a guess that is what you have).

Cheers,

Josh

[Luis Fernando Casanova]

Thank you, let me see this link

[Scott Olsen]

Another thing to *also* keep in mind; that even if these are VM images running in a virtualized environment, they are also likely running on an unsupported Operating System (RHEL 5).

VSM 7.9 has moved to RHEL6 and requires it for an OS.

If *this* is your situation, you may need to do a few steps here :-S

1. Upgrade existing deployment to 7.8 on RHEL 5.8 (read and follow upgrade guides)
2. Take configuration backups for all VSM servers at VSM 7.8.
3. Deploy NEW VSM 7.8 OVAs (with the underlying RHEL 6 OS)
4. Restore your configuration backups to these new server VMs (this might get tricky depending on how your actual MEDIA repo disks are set up... and will require some manual work to 'migrate' these disks containing archive video to the new servers)
5. Upgrade these new VSM 7.8 VMs to VSM 7.9 as per guides.

Again, this is how I would approach.  If you have Cisco TAC support available, I'd absolutely leverage that.

Cheers!

[joshua.r.landry]

Hardware restrictions will still apply, MSP hardware is the limiting factor for us going to 7.9.