Release 6.3

[gwmyers]

CM 6.03 G450 S8700

We currently have Release 6 which was End of Sale July 9, 2018
Our Vendor suggest we upgrade to Release 7x

Has anyone Upgraded and what are the consequences of not upgrading.

 

[joe2938]

Your vendor is just trying to make a buck

 

[gwmyers]

I seem to recall an Upgrade we wanted to do and AVAYA said we would need to upgrade our Release.

I think it was a product from TelStrat (Voice Recording)and the AES Server.

 

[gwebster]

There are no patches for release 6.

 

[joe2938]

Then you should have mentioned that in your 1st post, then I would have answered differently

 

[gwmyers]

My Apologies!

Thanks for your reply!

 

[joe2938]

Oh no worries

 

[avayaguy23]

You are better off upgrading to cm 8. Avaya is getting into a cycle of forcing you to upgrade every 2-3 years to stay current. If you do not have the skillset at your company and rely on your business partner I would recommend looking at an all encompassing solution like where you pay a monthly fee per user to be a part of avaya’s “cloud.”

 

[phoneguy55]

Im in the process of going from 6.3 to 7 now. 8 is still to new IMO. Doing all the upgrades myself so its just a bunch of AVP licenses.

 

[gwmyers]

Thanks to All that Replied!

 

[halj]

Go to 6.3.8 if possible,
But if you need more licenses you wont get it unless you go to 7 or 8.

If you go to 7 on your LSP's and ESS's you dont need extra license. If you go to 7.1 it is required AVP licenses on a weblm.
Same in 8.
There is no issues bringing all the survivable to 8 when the core is 6, I have this here at my lab env.

 

[gwmyers]

For Planning Purposes
What time frame should we be looking at for the upgrade?
6.03 to 8.1
Suggestions on how to best approach this upgrade?

 

[halj]

this is from Avaya doc below - check on page 29 - planning for migration.

https://downloads.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/101050427

Migration times
• Template migration can take between 2 and 8 hours to complete.
• Midsize Enterprise might take up to 15 hours.

If you need to rollback it will take a lot of time.

 

[jimbojimbo]

You can bring up all your new applications in VMware, test, then schedule an outage. Easiest way is to migrate the Processor Ethernet IP from the old server(s) to the new server(s).

I would suggest taking the leap to 8.x since you can expect end-of-manufacturer-support (no more patches) for 7.x towards the end of next year.

 

[dialtonebone]

Definitely get up to the latest (currently 8.1.x) - this will maximize those upgrade dollars and keep you in Avaya's support-good-graces.

The consequences of not upgrading are mainly in licensing and maintenance - can't add licenses nor can you get proper support and no patching.