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<p>Tom,</p>
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<p><strong>Thin Provisioning:</strong></p>
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<p>Here is a nice article from VMware on thin provisioning: <a id="LPlnk363941" href="https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/03/thin-provisioning-whats-the-scoop.html">
https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2012/03/thin-provisioning-whats-the-scoop.html</a> Essentially, it is a technique that allows the VM to only consumes storage space needed by the VM, as it needs it up to the size of the storage disk. With respect to Cisco UC,
in many cases (DAS TRC) it is not supported and where it is allowed (specs based) you must make sure the space is available at all times (no over-subscription). You can ready more on the subject at
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Ctrl+Click or tap to follow the link" id="LPlnk925776" href="http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/UC_Virtualization_Supported_Hardware">
http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/UC_Virtualization_Supported_Hardware</a></p>
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<p>In professional practice I never use thin provisioning for Cisco UC servers.</p>
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<p><strong>Unity Connections Split Brain:</strong></p>
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<p>Assuming that you HAD a healthy, well functioning Unity Connections cluster; what typically causes the
<em>Split Brain</em> issue is when the primary and HA nodes are either rebooted/lose power too close to one another and there are transactions taking place at just the right (rather, wrong) time. Essentially, both nodes end up with different database states
and the clustering services cannot accurately determine which database (node) should be primary.</p>
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<p>You end up in a state where each node is fighting with the other node in an epic "king of the hill" battle. Typically, by taking the HA node off line and rebooting the primary node (and signaling the IVR at least once) the clustering services are able to
restore balance to the cluster, then it is usually safe to power the HA node back up.</p>
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<p>Hope this helps,</p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;"><b>From:</b> Thomas LeMay <thomaslemay@comcast.net><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 27, 2015 2:33 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Jason Aarons (AM)'; 'Ryan Huff'; 'Aaron Banks'; cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [cisco-voip] Unity Connection 10.5.2 Split Brain Recovery</font>
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<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Hi, Aaron,</span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Can you elaborate on what is meant by thin provisioning? We experienced split brain a few weeks ago whereby each uc server thought it was the primary. They became
locked and I rebooted the servers. When they came back up they went into split brain recovery mode.</span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">We applied the 20K ova template.</span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Tom</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> cisco-voip [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jason Aarons (AM)<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 27, 2015 2:17 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Ryan Huff; Aaron Banks; cisco-voip@puck.nether.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [cisco-voip] Unity Connection 10.5.2 Split Brain Recovery</span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Only time I’ve seen split brain in UC was when the customer built the VM with thin provisioning. Seems their vm team did all sorts of things wrong….</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> cisco-voip [<a style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" href="mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net">mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Ryan Huff<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 27, 2015 1:26 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Aaron Banks <<a style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;" href="mailto:amichaelbanks@hotmail.com">amichaelbanks@hotmail.com</a>>;
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [cisco-voip] Unity Connection 10.5.2 Split Brain Recovery</span></p>
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1.) Shut down the HA node.</p>
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2.) Reboot the primary node</p>
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3.) Once the primary node is up, place a call into voicemail </p>
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4.) Power the HA node back on</p>
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5.) Once HA is up, verify HA status.</p>
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From: Aaron Banks <br>
Date:10/27/2015 12:35 PM (GMT-05:00) <br>
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Has anyone seen/resolved a split brain recovery in Unity Connection 10.5.2? The primary and secondary keep swapping back and forth every few minutes. I can ping and trace to each server. I restarted the primary but that did not resolve the issue. In the
RTMT system logs, the secondary sends an NTP query to the primary the response is the primary is inaccessible or down. I'm stumped.</p>
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