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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Well I guess I miss-read, or I think the doc has been refined since I looked at it last.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I was building a config for a c220M3, and I saw this note:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">“The C220 M3L (LFF) is only supported under UC on UCS Specs-based.” I don’t recall the LFF denotation there before.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> Ryan Ratliff [mailto:rratliff@cisco.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 20, 2013 8:50 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Nate VanMaren<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Boon; cisco-voip (cisco-voip@puck.nether.net)<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [cisco-voip] C220M3 16 GB Cisco Flexible Flash Card<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">It seemed last time I looked a lot of the TRCs are only supported as spec based anyways.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Can you elaborate on this? The UC TRCs are supported as such. Specs-based is when you have to deviate from the TRC for whatever reason.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">There's a new technote out that covers these and the support implications in more detail. It's worth a read if you haven't seen it yet.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6884/products_tech_note09186a0080bf23f5.shtml">http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6884/products_tech_note09186a0080bf23f5.shtml</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Feb 20, 2013, at 10:27 AM, Nate VanMaren <<a href="mailto:VanMarenNP@ldschurch.org">VanMarenNP@ldschurch.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">It seemed last time I looked a lot of the TRCs are only supported as spec based anyways.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">So if the normal use is to install and run vmware on the flash, go for it.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">…From what I can tell, spec based really just means you need vCenter too, and you have to make sure your disk supports the load.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net">cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net</a>
[mailto:cisco-<a href="mailto:voip-bounces@puck.nether.net">voip-bounces@puck.nether.net</a>]<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Boon<br>
<b>Sent:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, February 20, 2013 8:18 AM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Ryan Ratliff<br>
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<b>Subject:</b><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [cisco-voip] C220M3 16 GB Cisco Flexible Flash Card</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I had the same query last month. It seems that the only recommendation I could find was to use the VM partition for storing a copy of the ESXi install media for system recovery scenarios<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Ryan Ratliff <<a href="mailto:rratliff@cisco.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">rratliff@cisco.com</span></a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">None of the TRCs make use of it, though there's no reason you can't find something to do with it. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Feb 19, 2013, at 10:39 AM, Jason Aarons (AM) <<a href="mailto:jason.aarons@dimensiondata.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:purple">jason.aarons@dimensiondata.com</span></a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Overview of the Pre-Installed Cisco Flexible Flash Card</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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