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Re: Bugs with mixed Zimbra 7/Zimbra 8 cluster

We cheated a bit differently for Rh5 to Rh6, which is probably not helping you here, but here is what we did. 

We were running 7.1.something. on the old machines. Out entire install (/opt/zimbra) is sitting on our Netapps, so this helped as you will see, but you can probably fake it with copies. 
On the new hardware, running RH6, we installed zimbra with -s option (just a software install), and then removed /opt/zimbra as just installed. 
Stopped the production servers, and mounted their old /opt/zimbra on the new machines
Then on the new machines we re-ran the instal process upgrading from the same version to the same version, but this installs the correct build over the existing build.
Finally we upgraded the zimbra version to whatever latest was at the time (7.2.x) 

This worked like a charm for us, but we did have a version in common that we could use on both servers. In your case, with no supported versions in common, your path is probably rockier. 

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Vlad

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> We did the same, but did not trade our souls to the Devil.
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> We went from RHEL5 to 6, and ZCS 6 to 8,  Using 7 as our intermediary.
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> Ubu12 wont run any variant of 7?  We found 7.2.2 (iirc) to the the
> sweet-spot for compatibility.
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> We upgraded our zcs6 rhel5 machines to zcs7.2.2.  Added in our RHEL6
> ZCS 7.2.2 machines, retiring the rhel5 proxy, ldap, and smtp's as we
> did.  Then we ended up with our entire new platform in place, with the
> old stores still containing all f our accounts.
> 
> We then spent a few days migrating accounts via a script to our new
> stores. Then decomissioned the old ones.
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> We then did an in-place upgrade to zcs 8.
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> We found this to be the least painful and stressful migration path.
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> On 06/13/2014 04:11 PM, Rich Graves wrote:
> >> 1) When I performed my upgrade I just created new boxes that ran
> > zimbra 7 migrated all the users to the new boxes and then upgraded
> > the new machines to 8.0.4.
> > 
> > The proposal is to go from RHEL5 to Ubuntu 12. RHEL5 cannot run
> > ZCS8 and Ubuntu 12 cannot run ZCS7. So I'm looking at
> > account-by-account zmmailboxmove and prolonged coexistence.
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> Nathan Lager, RHCSA, RHCE, RHCVA (#110-011-426)
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