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

[Boon]

Thanks for the info Ryan and Jason.

I'm deploying a C-220-M3 server with a Flexible Flash card which as 4
virtual drives with a dedicated one for VM onto which I have installed ESXi
hypervisor. Therefore I'm guessing that the two RAID arrays approach was
meant for earlier c-series models without flash cards right?

I've setup the HDD as a single RAID5 which is inline with the tested
reference guide on the UCS wiki. I just want to know if I can create a
single datastore or whether it's better practice to create two and keep the
ISO discs separate. I think the VM doc will give me the answer hopefully.
Thanks.



On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Ryan Ratliff <rratliff at cisco.com> wrote:

> If you have a TRC then you can find instructions in here:
>
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/virtual/CUCM_BK_CA526319_00_cucm-on-virtualized-servers_chapter_00.html
>
> If you are specs-based, then it's expected you know how to structure your
> datastore(s) to meet your needs so there won't be specific instructions.
>
> All of our docs that I've run through have instructions for configuring
> two separate RAID arrays, one for ESXi and ISOs, and another for VMs.  The
> ones I've done have been RAID 1 and RAID 5 (respectively) and these are
> usually done at the same time, before you install ESXi.
>
> -Ryan
>
> On Jan 22, 2013, at 10:45 AM, Boon <ciscovoipuser at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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