UCS C240 M4X TRC

[madhav.kumar.bhardwaj12]

We are using UCS C240 M4X for our UC applications. It says that UCS C 240 M4X is TRC server for UC applications.

BE7000H (M4)
UCS C240 M4SX TRC#1
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2RU Rack-mount Server
Dual E5-2660 v3 (10-core, 2.6 GHz)
128 GB RAM
VMware + UC apps boot from DAS (four RAID5 volumes, each of 5x 300GB 15K SFF disks)
Ethernet ports on motherboard + 3rd-party NICs
20 total physical cores ("Full UC Performance" CPU type)
124 GB physical RAM
Four volumes of 1.2 TB each
1x 1GbE for CIMC, 2x 1GbE for LOM, 8x 1GbE for NIC

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/voice_ip_comm/cucm/virtual/CUCM_BK_CF3D71B4_00_cucm_virtual_servers.pdf

Above guide says that to use Four virtual drives (VD) with RAID-5 and Each VD has five 300-GB hard drives. But in our UCS 240M4X we only see 6 driver with each 857 GB space then how we can make each VD with five 300-GB HD ?

We are using Cisco 12G SAS Modular Raid Controller (SLOT-HBA) in our UCS 240 M4X.

[Kirk J]

Greetings.

Is your issue that you installed 20 drives but only see 6, or that you are trying to figure out how to match the large TRC specs but you only have 6 drives?

With six drives it looks like the only TRC spec that will match from storage perspective is:UCS C220 M4S TRC1 (Small TRC /BE6000M M4)

Thanks,

Kirk..

[madhav.kumar.bhardwaj12]

My case is 2nd one. I am trying to figure out how to match the large TRC specs but i only have 6 drives.

PID says that it is UCSC-C240-M4S and i can see 20 core on it so i assume it is UCS C 240M4X.

TRC doc says to use Four virtual drives (VD) with RAID-5 and each VD has five 300-GB hard drives.That makes total 4X5X300=6000 GB

With 6 drive on my UCS =6X857=5142 GB

But i can not reduce size from 1 physical drive from 857 b to 300 GB to use it as TRC configuration.

[Kirk J]

What you would be missing is not really the total space but the additional IOPs and throughput difference that 20 drives vs 6 would make.

You might want to open a TAC case with the application groups to confirm whether you config is not recommend for the sizing but may work, or if it is not supported at all.

Thanks,

Kirk..