AdvilJunkie
Programmer
Hey all,
Wanted to run a scenario by the forum to see if there’s a better way to do this or if my plan is sound:
Scenario
Today customer has a physical server edition ( Primary and Secondary) along with 2 expansion controllers in the same physical network as the Primary. The system is running 9.1.
The goal is to replace the Primary server with a VM in a new facility and convert their current physical primary server to a physical local secondary server for phone/voicemail/sip trunk failover and upgrade all components to match the new vm at 11.1.2.
They will eventually be moving out of their current Primary site and moving to the new location as their main facility but keeping the old space as well.
My plan was to restore the voicemail backup to the new server ahead of time as this won’t conflict with the production system. Then while onsite during the outage window, take the current SE backup and apply only the server config to the new VM and modify the config for the IP’s, routes and expansion lines. Then remove the secondary and expansions from the current solution, apply the modified config to the secondary physical server, then join the server and control units to the new server and then upgrade all components through the web of the primary server.
My 2 main concerns were joining the controller and server at a lower release ( I’ve never tried to add to a solution on a different major release) and upgrading the secondary server through the primary as I believe you need to use the thumb drive method and it wouldn’t upgrade through the web access method.
There’s a lot of moving parts on this one and wanted to see if anyone sees a major flaw in this plan or knows of an easier way to accomplish the above.
I completely understand if anyone needs further explanation to assist but tried cover it as much as possible.
Wanted to run a scenario by the forum to see if there’s a better way to do this or if my plan is sound:
Scenario
Today customer has a physical server edition ( Primary and Secondary) along with 2 expansion controllers in the same physical network as the Primary. The system is running 9.1.
The goal is to replace the Primary server with a VM in a new facility and convert their current physical primary server to a physical local secondary server for phone/voicemail/sip trunk failover and upgrade all components to match the new vm at 11.1.2.
They will eventually be moving out of their current Primary site and moving to the new location as their main facility but keeping the old space as well.
My plan was to restore the voicemail backup to the new server ahead of time as this won’t conflict with the production system. Then while onsite during the outage window, take the current SE backup and apply only the server config to the new VM and modify the config for the IP’s, routes and expansion lines. Then remove the secondary and expansions from the current solution, apply the modified config to the secondary physical server, then join the server and control units to the new server and then upgrade all components through the web of the primary server.
My 2 main concerns were joining the controller and server at a lower release ( I’ve never tried to add to a solution on a different major release) and upgrading the secondary server through the primary as I believe you need to use the thumb drive method and it wouldn’t upgrade through the web access method.
There’s a lot of moving parts on this one and wanted to see if anyone sees a major flaw in this plan or knows of an easier way to accomplish the above.
I completely understand if anyone needs further explanation to assist but tried cover it as much as possible.
