[cisco-voip] UC on UCS C-Series Datastore Setup

[Jason Aarons (AM)]

This gives some details on why ISO and VMs should be on separate I/O paths, along with other hardware best practices.

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/Perf_Best_Practices_vSphere5.0.pdf


Reading/writing from a DVD iso image can be i/o intensive conflicting with i/o needed for VMs.  If you not really ever using the DVD ISOs but once for install you may not need them separate.



From: cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Boon
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2013 10:46 AM
To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
Subject: [cisco-voip] UC on UCS C-Series Datastore Setup


Hi,

I'm in the process of building my first C-Series UCS server from scratch.

I've configured RAID, installed ESXi and have logged into vSphere. I need to configure a datastore which I'm ok with.

I have a question regarding the datastore setup. Is there any recommendations from Cisco on how to configure these logically?

I've seen a couple of installs that have two datastores, one for VMs and another for ISO images etc for quick rebuilds..

I have a 1.9TB of disk space to use and I'd like to set it up in line with best practice if I can.

Thanks,

Rab


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