Upgrading Unity Connection from 7.1.5 to 8.5.1 - not working

Question

I am attempting to upgrade our unity connection boxes from 7.1.5 to 8.5.1.
I have legacy MCS 7845H2 - It has 4 disks - 2 mirrors of 72gb disks. 4mb of RAM and 2 X 2.3ghz processors
I have UCS C210 VMWare Hosts.
I have attempted 2 migration methods.
The first method involves - upgrading the existing system and restoring a backup of this to a VM
This fails with a hardware compatablity check.
The second method involves - backup existing systen - build VM at same level (using recommending OVA) - restore data onto VM - upgrade VM
This fails with a restore problem - I have used 'TITAN' ftp, but please note the backup is < 900mb.
The error is
Physical restore failed - could not fork server connection, SQLCODE -25596
Program over.
Restore failed during Unity Connection DB ontape restore operation.
----> BEGIN Standard Error
/opt/cisco/connection/lib/disaster-recovery/database_do_restore.real.py:32: RuntimeWarning: Python C API version mismatch for module iproduct: This Python has API version 1013, module iproduct has version 1012.
import iproduct
gunzip: stdout: Broken pipe
----> END Standard Error
Has anyone out there attempted to upgrade to 8.5.1 - please let me know how you got on.
Any help or ideas appreciated.

Answer 1

Here is the end of the restore log ...
CCM DB is in On-Line status after 6 second.
Restoring the Unity Connection database from ontape archive...
Archive Tape Information
Tape type: Archive Backup Tape
Online version: IBM Informix Dynamic Server Version 10.00.UC9XF
Archive date: Mon Sep 26 19:45:06 2011
User id: root
Terminal id: ?
Archive level: 0
Tape device: STDIO
Tape blocksize (in k): 32
Tape size (in k): 0
Tape number in series: 1
Spaces to restore:1 [rootdbs ]
2 [cuc_er_dbspace ]
3 [dir16 ]
4 [rpt ]
5 [mbx16 ]
6 [dyn ]
7 [mbx ]
8 [dir ]
9 [log ]
10 [cuc_er_sbspace ]
11 [ciscounity_sbspace ]
12 [ciscounity_sbspacetemp ]
Archive Information
IBM Informix Dynamic Server Copyright IBM Corporation 1986, 2008
Initialization Time 06/01/2011 15:51:53
System Page Size 2048
Version 14
Archive CheckPoint Time 09/26/2011 19:45:07
Dbspaces
number flags fchunk nchunks flags owner name
1 40001 1 1 N B informix rootdbs
2 48001 2 1 N SB informix cuc_er_sbspace
3 40001 3 1 N B informix cuc_er_dbspace
4 40001 4 1 N B informix dir16
5 40001 5 1 N B informix rpt
6 42001 6 1 N TB informix temp
7 40001 7 1 N B informix mbx16
8 42001 8 1 N TB informix temp2
9 40001 9 1 N B informix dyn
10 40001 10 1 N B informix mbx
11 40001 11 1 N B informix dir
12 40001 12 1 N B informix log
13 48001 13 1 N SB informix ciscounity_sbspace
14 48001 14 1 N SB informix ciscounity_sbspacetemp
Chunks
chk/dbs offset size free bpages flags pathname
1 1 0 250000 183419 PO-B /var/opt/cisco/connection/db/root_dbspace
2 2 0 915000 176607 POSB /var/opt/cisco/connection/db/cuc_er_sbspace
3 3 0 85000 83217 PO-B /var/opt/cisco/connection/db/cuc_er_dbspace
4 4 0 128000 13824 PO-B /var/opt/cisco/connection/db/dir16_dbs
5 5 0 1024000 744409 PO-B /var/opt/cisco/connection/db/rpt_dbs
6 6 0 512000 511922 PO-B /var/opt/cisco/connection/db/temp_dbs
7 7 0 512000 495816 PO-B /usr/local/cm/db/informix/data/mbx16_dbs
8 8 0 512000 511897 PO-B /var/opt/cisco/connection/db/temp2_dbs
9 9 0 128000 110000 PO-B /var/opt/cisco/connection/db/dyn_dbs
10 10 0 128000 119774 PO-B /usr/local/cm/db/informix/data/mbx_dbs
11 11 0 1024000 362797 PO-B /var/opt/cisco/connection/db/dir_dbs
12 12 0 150000 24947 PO-B /var/opt/cisco/connection/db/log_dbs
13 13 0 10000 518 POSB /var/opt/cisco/connection/db/ciscounity_sbspace
14 14 0 450000 22554 POSB /var/opt/cisco/connection/db/ciscounity_sbspacetemp
Physical restore failed - could not fork server connection, SQLCODE -25596
Program over.
Restore failed during Unity Connection DB ontape restore operation.
----> BEGIN Standard Output
----> END Standard Output
----> BEGIN Standard Error
/opt/cisco/connection/lib/disaster-recovery/database_do_restore.real.py:32: RuntimeWarning: Python C API version mismatch for module iproduct: This Python has API version 1013, module iproduct has version 1012.
import iproduct
gunzip: stdout: Broken pipe
----> END Standard Error