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If you look at the TRC’s you see that the raid arrays scale with the number of available CPU cores.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><br>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Tommy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3C61AF'>Tommy Schlotterer</span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3C61AF'> </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#ECA83C'>| </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3C61AF'>Systems 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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Scott Voll [mailto:svoll.voip@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 18, 2014 10:23 AM<br><b>To:</b> Tommy Schlotterer<br><b>Cc:</b> Josh Warcop; cisco-voip voyp list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [cisco-voip] UC on UCS storage.....<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>and how many VM's are they putting on a C series?<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Scott<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Tommy Schlotterer <<a href="mailto:tschlotterer@netechcorp.com" target="_blank">tschlotterer@netechcorp.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><p>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p>C series is the recommendation unless its a high end enterprise customer.<o:p></o:p></p><p>Tommy<o:p></o:p></p><p>Sent from my phone.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Dec 17, 2014 9:44 PM, Josh Warcop <<a href="mailto:josh@warcop.com" target="_blank">josh@warcop.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>All good until our storage guy messed up the NFS permissions and the call manager died. <br><br>Sent from my Windows Phone<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><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'><a href="mailto:svoll.voip@gmail.com" target="_blank">Scott Voll</a></span><br><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Sent: </span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>12/17/2014 7:16 PM</span><br><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>To: </span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><a href="mailto:cisco-voip@puck.nether.net" target="_blank">cisco-voip@puck.nether.net</a></span><br><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Subject: </span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Re: [cisco-voip] UC on UCS storage.....</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I just found this: <a href="http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/UC_Virtualization_Supported_Hardware#Storage" target="_blank">http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/UC_Virtualization_Supported_Hardware#Storage</a> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Looks like all the protocols are supported. FCoE, iSCSI, NFS for 3rd party. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Anyone running any of this in production and care to put in your two cents?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Scott<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Scott Voll <<a href="mailto:svoll.voip@gmail.com" target="_blank">svoll.voip@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal>OK planning storage requirements for UC on UCS upgrade from 8.6(physical) to 10.5(vm) <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Can anyone confirm that IO and Storage looks reasonable? and let me know which protocol's are TAC supported?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#888888'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#888888'>Scott<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#888888'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></body></html>