I've done something similar and plan to do it again. However, in my situation it was a completely isolated network. No connection what so ever. But I like your idea of NAT'ing so you can still access live network resources as required, like AD, NTP, etc. I may, if the network team supports it, add this feature.
Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 25, 2016, at 2:43 PM, Scott Voll <[email protected]> wrote: > > So my co-worker and I are thinking about upgrades. we are currently on 10.5 > train and thinking about the 11.5 train. > > What would be your thoughts about taking a clone of every VM. CM, UC, UCCx, > CER, PLM, > > placing it on another vlan with the same IP's. NAT it as it goes onto your > network so it has access to NTP, DNS, AD, etc. > > do your upgrade on the clones. > > Then in VM ware shut down the originals,and change the Vlan (on the clones) > back to the production vlan for your voice cluster. > > it would be like a telco slash cut. 10 minute outage as you move from one > version to the other. > > Thoughts? > > Scott > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-voip mailing list > [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip _______________________________________________ cisco-voip mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-voip
