We have had customers have more than a single drive failure in a Raid5 set with 
all your vms running.  It was pretty.

So perhaps 2 drives raid 1 for ESXi and ISOs, 7 drives raid 5 for vms, 7 drives 
raid 5 for vms

But yeah the existing layout seems odd….but I do what it says…but I’m not sure 
where the contact center bu gets these setups from.

Jason Aarons
Consultant
Dimension Data
+1-904-338-3245

From: Charles Goldsmith [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2014 8:16 PM
To: Jason Aarons (AM)
Cc: cisco-voip ([email protected])
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] C240M3 16 drives for CUCM/UCCE


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.

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.

On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Jason Aarons (AM) 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
C240M3  TRC setup
8 drives raid 5 group 1
8 drives raid 5 group 2

Seems like an odd setup to have the hypervisor running on a Raid 5 array.
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

Do you install Virtual Machines to both Raid5 arrays, or just ESXi on one and 
the VMs on the other?

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.


Jason Aarons
Consultant
Dimension Data
+1-904-338-3245<tel:%2B1-904-338-3245>


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