So, the question is, what is a better choice to get started with a Lab, and begin creating your own configurations? - Here is a list of the benefits from a Cloud Vs Home Lab
The difference between a Cloud lab and a Home lab Cloud Lab (dCLoud and DevNet) If you are one of those weird people that don’t want to run CUCM, UNITY Connection, IM & Presence, Jabber and other UC apps in your house, you are in luck. Cisco dCloud + Devnet Sandboxes are what you are in the business for.
Building a Collaboration lab is a big decision and cost could be keeping you from getting started. Recently I received a request from a friend on FB about how to get started.
Well, there are many options and many questions, one of the questions is the licensing piece. Cisco licensing is expensive if you plan to go crazy (like me) and have your home using all the goodies you already use at work.
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.
Yes, another upgrade and more with it. This one was very special and I was totally blaming myself after the TAC engineer helped me figure it out.
I was always told, or I remember it was good practice to always get the latest Upgrade file from CCO Downloads page for everything. Well I did that and found myself into an issue.
The scenario:
Customer Upgrading CUCM, CUC and IM&P servers from 9.1.2 to Version 10.5 (No issue here):
