Release 2.2 Upgrade Scenarios - Avaya G700 Installation Manual

Upgrading an Existing S8300A to R2.2
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CAUTION:
These upgrade procedures require remastering the hard drive on the S8300B.
CAUTION:
This can result in a service interruption of 3–4 hours, or up to 6 hours if IA770 is
being used.
Tip:
You may skip some of the procedures described in this chapter depending on the
Tip:
upgrade scenario. Watch for the skip to instructions.
Tip:
Because of the replacement of the S8300A and the reformatting of the S8300B
Tip:
hard drive, the Avaya Installation Wizard (IW) cannot support upgrades of
Communication Manager to release 2.2 when starting with the S8300A version.
However, the IW and the Upgrade Tool can still be used for the media gateway
and media module firmware upgrades.

Release 2.2 upgrade scenarios

The upgrade procedures are slightly different depending on the upgrade scenario. The main
differences between the scenarios are summarized in
procedures.
Table 13: Release 2.2 upgrade scenarios
Upgrade From
R 1.x
R 2.0.x
The unshaded cells in this table are the most common and recommended upgrade scenarios.
The shaded cells are scenarios that are unlikely or not recommended.
238 Installation and Upgrades for Avaya G700 Media Gateway and Avaya S8300 Media Server
S8300 B Hard Drive has
Remastering Software
Only
Linux Migration backup
Remaster and upgrade
Linux Migration restore
Data backup
Remaster and upgrade
Data restore
Move hard drive from A to B
Upgrade
Table 13 and are noted in the detailed
S8300 B Hard Drive has
R2.0.x Software Installed
Linux Migration backup
Upgrade
Linux Migration restore
Data backup
Upgrade
Data restore