Cisco Prime Collaboration Deployment is an application that is designed to assist in the management of Unified Communications (UC) applications. It allows you to perform tasks such as migration of older software versions of clusters to new virtual machines, fresh installs, and upgrades on existing clusters.

Cisco Prime Collaboration Deployment has four primary high-level functions:

• Migrate an existing cluster of UC servers to a new cluster (such as MCS to virtual or virtual to virtual)

• Perform operations on existing clusters (8.6(1) or later). Examples of these operations include:

  • Upgrade

  • Switch version

  • Restart

• Change IP addresses or hostnames in the cluster on existing Release 10.x clusters.

  Important:

  All the IP addresses that are mentioned in this document applies only for the IPv4 address format.

• Fresh install a new Release 10.x or 11.0 Unified Communications cluster

Note	Cisco Prime Collaboration Deployment features are only supported by specific software versions. See "Supported Releases" for more information about software versions that are compatible with each Cisco Prime Collaboration Deployment feature.