I'm a little rusty on Call Manager, but I think there is a setting on the phone setup page where you can select to hide the network settings. (Often done for lobby/public phones)On a CME system the command is:telephony-service service phone settingsA...
The Voice Vlans allow you to put QoS on the voice traffic so it gets delivery priority over data traffic. You also get flexibility to use your switchports for phones or PCs or to "daisy chain" by pluging in a PC to the PC port on the IP Phone. In add...
No it is not a must. I have the default MCS 7835 with only 2 drives. I used a 1GB usb drive to transfer some of the recent patches. One valuable lesson is to make sure you remove the USB drive before the server reboots or it will hang,R.T.O.
