CUCM VM's residing in SAN

[Brian Betourney]

Does Cisco Support the placing of CUCM Virtual Machines totally within a SAN?

We have a C240 connected to our SAN via iSCSI.  The C240 is running eSXI, however the publisher and subscribers are mapped as LUNS on a non-Cisco SAN.   Is this configuration supported by the TAC? 

Thanks

[Terry Cheema]

Yes CUCM does support SAN storage and boot from SAN as well as long as it meets the requirements. Review below:

http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/UC_Virtualization_Supported_Hardware#Storage

http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/UC_Virtualization_Storage_System_Design_Requirements

http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/Virtualization_for_Cisco_Unified_Communications_Manager_%28CUCM%29#IOPS_and_Storage_System_Performance_Requirements

-Terry

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[Jaime Valencia]

Do bear in mind that if you're using TRCs for them, it's no longer considered a TRC if you do that, as Cisco only tested and guaranteed the performance with the onboard storage. Your support level would become a spec based TRC.

Assuming you meet the requirements outlined in the links Terry posted, yes, it would still be supported.