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

[Boon]

Ok thanks all. I found my answer here:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns340/ns517/ns224/ns944/white_paper_c11-718938.html

*"After you enable the virtual drives, you will be able to access them from
the BIOS for bootup or, in the case of the HV partition, for installation
of a bootable image."*
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It seems that I misread the docs and the flex flash drive HV partition
should be used for storing a bootable ESXi ISO and not for installation of
the OS.


On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Matthew Loraditch <
MLoraditch at heliontechnologies.com> wrote:

>  FWIW as an additional datapoint, For CMBE6K 9.0 new orders, the server
> comes semi-preconfigured and the HV is on a RAID 10 Virtual disk with a
> single datastore that the ISOs and the VMs also go on.****
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> *From:* cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:
> cisco-voip-bounces at puck.nether.net] *On Behalf Of *Boon
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 23, 2013 6:26 PM
> *To:* cisco-voip at puck.nether.net
> *Subject:* Re: [cisco-voip] UC on UCS C-Series Datastore Setup****
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> Thanks Ryan. It's confusing as the setup guide that comes with the C220-M3
> provides steps indicating that that the HV should be installed on one of
> the VD on the flash drive. ****
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> Are you saying that this should be ignored for UC on UCS installs and the
> previous method of installing the HV on the HDD should be followed?****
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> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:37 PM, Ryan Ratliff <rratliff at cisco.com> wrote:
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>  Keep in mind that deviating from our install guides on a TRC drops you
> back to specs-based support in terms of UC on UCS.  Not that you will have
> any issues but it is something you need to be aware of in the case that
> things really start to go south. ****
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> I'm sure the 2 array configuration was done both data protection and for
> performance.  We haven't found any real benefit to using the flexible flash
> drives for TRCs (since we aren't limited by disk space and the hypervisor
> mostly runs in RAM anyway) which is why it isn't included in our guides.**
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> On Jan 22, 2013, at 12:21 PM, Boon <ciscovoipuser at gmail.com> wrote:****
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> Thanks for the info Ryan and Jason. ****
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> 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?****
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> 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.****
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> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Ryan Ratliff <rratliff at cisco.com> wrote:*
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>  If you have a TRC then you can find instructions in here:****
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> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/virtual/CUCM_BK_CA526319_00_cucm-on-virtualized-servers_chapter_00.html
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> 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.**
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> 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.  ****
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> On Jan 22, 2013, at 10:45 AM, Boon <ciscovoipuser at gmail.com> wrote:****
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> Hi, ****
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> I'm in the process of building my first C-Series UCS server from scratch.
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> I've configured RAID, installed ESXi and have logged into vSphere. I need
> to configure a datastore which I'm ok with. ****
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> I have a question regarding the datastore setup. Is there any
> recommendations from Cisco on how to configure these logically?****
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> I've seen a couple of installs that have two datastores, one for VMs and
> another for ISO images etc for quick rebuilds..****
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> 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. ****
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> Thanks, ****
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