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

[Boon]

The server was ordered in line with 'C220 M3S (SFF) TRC#1' so I'm assuming
I'm all set to follow the guide?






On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Ryan Ratliff <rratliff at cisco.com> wrote:

> How the server is configured is entirely dependent on what you purchased.
>  If you bought a TRC (with a voice sku) then in order to be supported as a
> TRC it needs to be configured as such.  If you did a custom build or a
> datacenter sku for the UCS then you'll be specs-based support (for UC apps)
> and can configure it to meet your needs.
>
> -Ryan
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> On Jan 23, 2013, at 7:07 AM, Boon <ciscovoipuser at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ok thanks all. I found my answer here:
>
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> 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.
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> 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:****
>>
>> 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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>> -Ryan ****
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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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>> -Ryan ****
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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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