[cisco-voip] Anything "Magic" About 8 or 12 Gig Partitions on Unity Servers?

Wed Feb 4 16:17:36 EST 2009

Both 8 and 12 Gig Stink because my Ops Guys Keep putting stuff on it and 12
Gigs fills up Fast on Win 2003 and Up...

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Miller, Steve
<MillerS at dicksteinshapiro.com>wrote:

> Thanks again for your help!  Taking a slightly different
> approach....what is the recommended C drive and D drive size when you
> are building a new Unity server?  We have a data center that we are
> planning and I'm wondering if a 12 gig C drive is adequate to take us
> from Unity 4.2.1 all the way to Unity 7.  Is there a limit to how big
> the C drive should be?  What if we have a 1000 gig hard drive and
> partition that into a 100 gig C drive, a 200 gig D drive and then carve
> out a third segment ("F") for undefined purposes?  Will the C drive OS
> functionality be improved or diminished by the larger size?
>
>
> Steve Miller
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pat Hayes [mailto:pat-cv at wcyv.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 7:20 PM
> To: Miller, Steve
> Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Anything "Magic" About 8 Gig Partitions on
> Unity Servers?
>
> It is certainly best practice to match hardware and drive config (and
> really, everything) between failover servers. In terms of 'what will
> work', you could probably get away with having a different underlying
> physical disk config, so long as you had similar partitions (drive
> letters and sizes) setup and you installed everything to matching
> drives/paths on each server, but it certainly isn't recommended and
> might get you in some hot water with TAC down the line.
>
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Miller, Steve
> <MillerS at dicksteinshapiro.com> wrote:
> > Excellent information.  Thank you!  It is also important for the
> primary
> > and secondary to match disk sizes and partitions, correct?
> >
> >
> > Steve Miller
> > Telecom Engineer
> > Dickstein Shapiro LLP
> > 1825 Eye Street NW | Washington, DC 20006
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> > MillerS at dicksteinshapiro.com
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> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Pat Hayes [mailto:pat-cv at wcyv.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 6:52 PM
> > To: Miller, Steve
> > Cc: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> > Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Anything "Magic" About 8 Gig Partitions on
> > Unity Servers?
> >
> > The size of the C: partition is only relevant for the OS (if you
> > follow the docs, the only thing on C: is the OS). Back in the day, 8
> > gigs was plenty for server 2000. Now, with server 2003 and many a
> > service pack, the size has been bumped. As long as you can shoe-horn
> > your OS in and don't have anything else installed on the C: partition
> > that might fill it up, Unity will be happy.
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Miller, Steve
> > <MillerS at dicksteinshapiro.com> wrote:
> >> Of course, I meant 12 gig C drives.
> >>
> >>
> >> Steve Miller
> >> Telecom Engineer
> >> Dickstein Shapiro LLP
> >> 1825 Eye Street NW | Washington, DC 20006
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> >>
> >> ________________________________
> >> From: Miller, Steve
> >> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 4:02 PM
> >> To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> >> Subject: Anything "Magic" About 8 Gig Partitions on Unity Servers?
> >>
> >> Is it most important that the C drives and D drives match with
> Primary
> > and
> >> Failover servers or is there something important about having 8 gig
> > drives
> >> or 12 gig drives?
> >>
> >> Will Unity 5.X run on 12 gig CD drives?
> >>
> >>
> >> Steve Miller
> >> Telecom Engineer
> >> Dickstein Shapiro LLP
> >> 1825 Eye Street NW | Washington, DC 20006
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> >> MillerS at dicksteinshapiro.com
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> >>
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