[cisco-voip] UC on UCS storage.....

[Tommy Schlotterer]

We use TRC’s and Cisco to my knowledge does not give specific  storage recommendations for the TRC’s other than to balance the apps on different arrays if the server has more than one.

We use all available vCPU’s on the server and assume that Cisco calculated the average IOPS per vCPU and built the server accordingly. If you look at the TRC’s you see that the raid arrays scale with the number of available CPU cores.

Thanks,

Tommy

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From: Scott Voll [mailto:svoll.voip at gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 10:23 AM
To: Tommy Schlotterer
Cc: Josh Warcop; cisco-voip voyp list
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] UC on UCS storage.....

and how many VM's are they putting on a C series?

Scott


On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Tommy Schlotterer <tschlotterer at netechcorp.com<mailto:tschlotterer at netechcorp.com>> wrote:

We have our data center guys run an iops test VM to determine whether or not the storage is provide the required iops, and we recommend that the customer is  already experienced with a storage environment. We don't want an admin accidentally bringing the storage array down.

C series is the recommendation unless its a high end enterprise customer.

Tommy

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On Dec 17, 2014 9:44 PM, Josh Warcop <josh at warcop.com<mailto:josh at warcop.com>> wrote:
All good until our storage guy messed up the NFS permissions and the call manager died.

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From: Scott Voll<mailto:svoll.voip at gmail.com>
Sent: ‎12/‎17/‎2014 7:16 PM
To: cisco-voip at puck.nether.net<mailto:cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] UC on UCS storage.....
I just found this:  http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/UC_Virtualization_Supported_Hardware#Storage

Looks like all the protocols are supported.  FCoE, iSCSI, NFS for 3rd party.

Anyone running any of this in production and care to put in your two cents?

Scott

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Scott Voll <svoll.voip at gmail.com<mailto:svoll.voip at gmail.com>> wrote:
OK planning storage requirements for UC on UCS upgrade from 8.6(physical)  to 10.5(vm)

we are looking at 2 CM nodes, 1 UC, 1 UCCx, one CER, PLM, PCD, and presence.  The way I see it from the VM doc's it looks like I need about 1 TB of storage and roughly 8k IOPS.  What Protocols are supported?  FCoE? iSCSI? NFS?  The only thing I have found thus far is FC.

Can anyone confirm that IO and Storage looks reasonable?  and let me know which protocol's are TAC supported?

Thanks

Scott

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