Might be less work to just start over…..

> On May 28, 2020, at 10:25 AM, Matthew Loraditch 
> <mloradi...@heliontechnologies.com> wrote:
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> Here’s a fun one. We have taken over support of these ancient servers hosted 
> on Esxi 4.1 on UCS-C200-M2s!
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> Exact Versions are:
> 8.5 SU2 for CUCM/UCXN
> 8.5 FCS for UCCX
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> Each  is a pair of servers.
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> Have new M5s and flex licensing… need to get to 12.5..  8.5 docs are dead for 
> CUCM/UCXN and 8 and 9 docs are dead for UCCX. ISOs I may need are not 
> available publicly.
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> Also fun wrinkle the new host are across the WAN and for many logistical 
> reasons are staying there. The migration to the new hosts will have to be via 
> DRS or maybe PCD somehow? Not sure if the bandwidth available to get data 
> across will be fast enough to finish in the allotted time period. My plan was 
> a change freeze window and copy/restore the backups and then activate the new 
> servers and move the subnet to the new location.
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> As best I can tell I need to get UCCX to SU4 of 8.5.1 then I can go to 10.6 
> SU3 and then to 12x (with the fun of two CAD upgrades and then a migration to 
> Finesse!)
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> For CUCM/UCXN I need to go to 8.6 anything and then I can go to 11.5 and then 
> to 12x
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> I think my plan is to do the upgrades to the interim versions on the old 
> hosts then migrate to the new and then finish the upgrades. The old hosts 
> will need ESXi upgrades to an interim version.
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> Anyone have thoughts on what they would do here? This is partially depending 
> on TAC being able to provide me the ISOs I will need, but I presume there is 
> an archive.
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> In theory some sort of PCD migration is also an option, but I’ve never done 
> one and not sure how it could handle the subnet situation that will have to 
> exist.
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> Welcome to my fun life!
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> Matthew Loraditch​
> Sr. Network Engineer
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