[cisco-voip] C240M3 16 drives for CUCM/UCCE

[Mike Hyde]

We used SD flash disks for esxi (mirrored) and 2 raid 5 sets for the vms. 

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> On Sep 4, 2014, at 10:31 PM, "Jason Aarons (AM)" <jason.aarons at dimensiondata.com> wrote:
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> We have had customers have more than a single drive failure in a Raid5 set with all your vms running.  It was pretty.
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> So perhaps 2 drives raid 1 for ESXi and ISOs, 7 drives raid 5 for vms, 7 drives raid 5 for vms
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> But yeah the existing layout seems odd….but I do what it says…but I’m not sure where the contact center bu gets these setups from.
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> Jason Aarons
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> Dimension Data
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> From: Charles Goldsmith [mailto:wokka at justfamily.org] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2014 8:16 PM
> To: Jason Aarons (AM)
> Cc: cisco-voip (cisco-voip at puck.nether.net)
> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] C240M3 16 drives for CUCM/UCCE
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> Personally, I wouldn't leave a system in that format, it's a waste of space.  Cisco's docs seem to change because at one point, the docwiki specified that it could be built in either a raid 5 or raid 10 (for the app storage), but that has been updated.
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> I'd personally setup a mirror with the first two for ESXI and then a raid 10 with the remainder drives.  You get more IOPS out of it and should have plenty of space.
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> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Jason Aarons (AM) <jason.aarons at dimensiondata.com> wrote:
> C240M3  TRC setup
> 8 drives raid 5 group 1
> 8 drives raid 5 group 2
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> Seems like an odd setup to have the hypervisor running on a Raid 5 array.
> http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/virtual/CUCM_BK_CF3D71B4_00_cucm_virtual_servers/CUCM_BK_CF3D71B4_00_cucm_virtual_servers_chapter_010.html
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> Do you install Virtual Machines to both Raid5 arrays, or just ESXi on one and the VMs on the other?
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> Customer asked me why Cisco would have ESXi  installed on a 1.93TB raid 5 array vs having two drives in Raid 1 mirror.  I told them I would ask around.   
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> Jason Aarons
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> Dimension Data
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