Tag: Upgrades

Upgrading ESXI from 6.5 to 6.7
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Upgrading ESXI from 6.5 to 6.7

I turned my lab back on!!, and guess what, it was a mess, I lost my vCenter server and well… I’ll stop complaining and jump back into the substance of this post. Previous steps after losing the Host I had vCenter on If this has happened to you either in production or in a lab environment, be sure it will not be nice, few of the things I had to deal with:

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Rebuilding CUCM from an Export - Common issues and solutions

Here is something that I should have posted few weeks ago, but I have been very busy lately, a sign that the New year took off very strong. The Scenario Sometimes your CUCM server is out of any hope, full of bugs and issues after issues, yes I’m talking about CUCM version 11.0 - .0 versions are really hard on Delivery Engineers, because the solution is not as stable as Cisco says it is.

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Changing the hostname of Unity Connection - why would you?

In case you were wondering, if there was a way to change the name of a Unity Connection server… of course there is a way… Now, the question is, would you do it? So in this case I will go with the Cisco Prime Collaboration Deployment to even think about tackling this one. Seems that there is a function that will assist you on doing that. I guess I will definitely take a look at that and share my experience with you in the near future, as I keep advancing on creating more content that is keeping me distracted, but hang in there, cools stuff is coming soon :)