<div dir="ltr">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.<div>
<br></div><div>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.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Jason Aarons (AM) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jason.aarons@dimensiondata.com" target="_blank">jason.aarons@dimensiondata.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">C240M3 TRC setup<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">8 drives raid 5 group 1<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">8 drives raid 5 group 2<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Seems like an odd setup to have the hypervisor running on a Raid 5 array.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><a href="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" target="_blank">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</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Do you install Virtual Machines to both Raid5 arrays, or just ESXi on one and the VMs on the other?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">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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<p class="MsoNormal">Jason Aarons<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dimension Data<u></u><u></u></p>
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