Tag: Cucm Upgrade

Zero Downtime Upgrades - An upgrade approach to avoid late nights
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Zero Downtime Upgrades - An upgrade approach to avoid late nights

Let’s see, it has been a while since the last time you heard from me, but this time I will spare you the excuse! What is a Zero Downtime Upgrade? This is an upgrade where no matter from which version of VOS (CUCM, UNITY, and UCCX) you are coming from can be done with very little or zero downtime The Reasoning behind Look I have always worked with companies that like their stuff done quickly, efficiently and with minimal downtime. I’m also very lazy, or very practical, so if I don’t have to spend all night doing an upgrade, I simply don’t do it. Now, like everything else, there are a lot of exceptions to the scenario I will be going over on this Post, so keep reading!

CUCM upgrade from 9.x to 11.x - Short post
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CUCM upgrade from 9.x to 11.x - Short post

Finishing an upgrade project after being a while since doing one, I wanted to take the time to share the experience and how easy has Cisco made it into upgrading their software. It may look a bit disorganized, but you will find few things that I used to refresh my memory on the process, but I found that it was a surprisingly less painful than before. Now, one thing I like to mention is the fact that this is still a Refresh Upgrade because of the change on the REHL version of CUCM, but the Refresh Upgrade COP is not needed, note that the previous version is 9.x.