When you create the machines in workstation, you can choose to pre-allocate the entire disk space or not.<br>So you can set your disk size at 72GB, but it will grow / shrink dynamically.<br><br>Having said that.. I believe there is a slight performance gain if you pre-allocate the whole lot.<br>
If you are running on a server, you could actually use a full physical disk for each VM, which again, is supposed to help with performance.<br><br>I think ESX has some strict hardware requirements also that you will need to check for the host.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br><br>Tim<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Lelio Fulgenzi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lelio@uoguelph.ca">lelio@uoguelph.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Thanks Tanner. Looks like I'll need some large disks in order to run a few machines.<br><br>Or do I have it wrong. Does VMware dynamically assign disk space? If I give a VM 72 gb, does that have to physically exist on the VMServer?<div class="im">
<br><br>---<br>Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.<br>Senior Analyst (CCS) * University of Guelph * Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1<br>(519) 824-4120 x56354 (519) 767-1060 FAX (JNHN)<br>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<br>
"Bad grammar makes me [sic]" - Tshirt<br><br><br></div><div><div></div><div class="h5">----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Tanner Ezell" <<a href="mailto:tanner.ezell@gmail.com" target="_blank">tanner.ezell@gmail.com</a>><br>
To: "Lelio Fulgenzi" <<a href="mailto:lelio@uoguelph.ca" target="_blank">lelio@uoguelph.ca</a>><br>Cc: "cisco-voip voyp list" <<a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net" target="_blank">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</a>><br>
Sent: Saturday, August 1, 2009 9:16:59 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern<br>Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] vmware specs for CUCM<br><br>You'll need at least 1GB (ram) and 72GB (disk) to install UCM (and most other cisco products..)<div>
<br></div><div>ESXi runs with less overhead than workstation (no host overhead).</div><div><br></div><div>Make sure to select Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 for the VM type when installing a Linux based appliance.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Lelio Fulgenzi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lelio@uoguelph.ca" target="_blank">lelio@uoguelph.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">i'm looking at building or cannibalizing a couple of servers to run VMWare ESX or workstation so I can get my three CUCM nodes up and running.<br>
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What are people using as their VMWare configs? disk/memory etc.<br><br>Are there any advantages to going with ESXi vs workstation?<br><br>---<br><font color="#888888">Lelio Fulgenzi, B.A.<br>Senior Analyst (CCS) * University of Guelph * Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1<br>
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