3300 Release 7 upgrades

[kwbMitel]

Has anyone noticed the time for upgrading a LX controller seems to be faster than usual? I'm not complaining, but I would like to factor it into my estimates. I've been finding the LX upgrades in about 35 minutes while the CX and MX's still take roughly 1 hour.

Anyone?

 

[MitelInMyBlood]

I think it depends largely on the size of the pipe and other traffic present on it when you're doing one remotely (as most of ours are).

Upgrading the 3300 from 6.1 to 7 took approx 2:17 each over a 512k fractional T1 and there was no voice mail on either system.

If there's a speed improvement in upgrading, I haven't seen it.

 

[kwbMitel]

All of my upgrades have been on the local LAN. I've now had 2 LX's come in at the 35 minute mark and all others 700's, 200's, MX's and CX's all come in at about 1 hour.

 

[MitelInMyBlood]

The LXs are running 450 Mhz processors, no? The 1-hour timeframe is about average on the local LAN for the 300 Mhz machines, regardless of software revision.

 

[MitelInMyBlood]

Compared to the 6+ hours per machine it used to take to shuffle 14 floppy disks for an upgrade to a SX2000-SG, the 1~2 hours required for the 3300 is a very welcomed change.

With the Software Installer tool (or OpsMan) you can also perform a fully unattended automated upgrade. Click start and literally walk away (or go to a ball game). Come back and it's done. Even on the dual/redundant SX2K you can do both planes and have it switch activity in the middle, all without you being there. I love it.

 

[kwbMitel]

I agree, it has come a long way. You mentioned Software installer tool and OPSMan in the same breath so I'm curious, I know OPSMan can be used to schedule an upgrade on the 2K but i don't know of a way to use it or the SW Inst Tool to Schedule an upgrade on the 3300. Do you know differently?

 

[MitelInMyBlood]

Sorry for confusing you. I often confuse myself. I've never "scheduled" an upgrade. I've always been there to kick it off manually. I've used both Ops and SI without incident on remotes over 1000 miles away. Trusting soul, aren't I?

You can schedule so many things w/OpsMan it wouldn't surprise me to learn that you could schedule a software upgrade. Just the thought of something like that is scary to me tho, but I have done many of them remotely, without being at the site receiving the upgrade.