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Replacing the unity server hardware

r.turmes
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Hi,

I want to replace the unity server hardware with another brand, so I can't do a mirror of the hard drives. I don't have a DAT drive in the server neither. What steps do I have to take to migrate unity from one server to another?

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kechambe
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We're getting ready to do this ourselves. Is there any reason to need to worry about taking down relationshipd between the old unity server and the new one before doing this? Or is it okay if you just run the DIRT procedures, shut down the old one - install the new Unity server - run recovery - and archive the old server?

Also - Can't remember if I already asked this befor e- but we're planning to do this hardware replacemnt as part of a 3.1(5) to 4.0 upgrade - would it be better to upgrade to 4.0 on the currrent Unity and then run dirt and install the new server?

Or run dirt on the 3.15 box first, then bring the new box up to 3.15 and go to 4.0?

Ken Johnson

LeTourneau University

http://www.letu.edu

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Cisco IP Telephony Users Group

CIPTUG

http://www.ciptug.org

it's a good idea, although not necessary, to uninstall the old server first - you can just run DiRT restore on the new box without removing the old one though. It'll "stamp" all the objects in the directory to point to the new box so you can't just "hot swap" back to the old one or anything.

No real benefit to using DiRT on 3.15 vs 4.0(1) so you can do it in either order - just make sure in either case you run out to CiscoUnitytools.com and fetch the latest versions of DiRT backup and restore before rolling on it.

Ok Thanks!

We'll go ahead and do it the right way and uninstall after grabbing the dirt image. Any need during the middle of that process to do any cleanup in AD or does DIRT restore handle any of that (aka any orphaned objects, etc) or does it pretty much re-utilize everything?

Thanks!

- Ken

Ken Johnson

LeTourneau University

http://www.letu.edu

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Cisco IP Telephony Users Group

CIPTUG

http://www.ciptug.org

The only thing you need to do in AD is at the end of the Uninstall process - it puts up a dialog listing a few objects you need to go delete (i.e. the DLs, example admin and example subscriber for that box). Other than that you're good - DiRT will bind to the accounts in AD when you do the restore on the new box and it should be ready to roll.

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