Re: cisco lab setup using vmware

From: diehard J (diehard.j@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Feb 25 2008 - 05:19:55 ARST


Hi Avner

Could you please suggest what I should be doing. These are the pointers I
had in my mind:

- Get a server with 4 different hard disks
- In disk management change them from basic to dynamic disks (basically
creating volumes)
- Partition them as single or four different partitions( need to check which
would be better)
- In both the cases my assumption was that the server would have individual
heads for all the 4 hard drives and data writing and accessing part would be
easy.
- if you think this is not going work please share some more details on
advanced controller.

Thanks alot for your valuable advice.

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:53 PM, Avner Izhar <aizhar@ccbootcamp.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It sounds good to me, and as I said it is a scenario (three virtual
> machines on the same physical server) that worked for me.
>
> One thing to pay attention to is the disks, they should be fast and
> preferably with some advanced controller that can do raid. Concurrent disks
> read/write is going to be a bottle neck for a regular disk system.
>
> HTH,
>
>
> -------------------------------------------
> thanks,
> Avner Izhar
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> ------------------------------
> *From:* diehard J [mailto:diehard.j@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, February 22, 2008 01:11
> *To:* Avner Izhar
> *Cc:* Ashwin Iyer; Cisco certification
> *Subject:* Re: cisco lab setup using vmware
>
> Hi Avner
>
> Thanks for your reply. This is what I am plannig to do:
>
> Buy a Server with QUAD processor 2.4MHZ & 8 GB RAM(Microsoft 2003 advance
> server or MS 2000 advance server to handle 8GB of RAM)
>
>
> and try running PUB/SUB/IPCC/UNITY/DYNAMIPS all on a single machine. I
> went though the link and it recommends atleast 2 machine to run CCM/IPCC and
> UNITY on 2 different machines.
>
> I dont mind buying some extra ram if I could save on additional
> machine.Please let me know if its a nice idea :)
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Avner Izhar <aizhar@ccbootcamp.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Have only done the servers part of it on a strong enough server, lots of
> > ram (4 gig at least) and a fast disk system.
> >
> > Call Manager 4.1 with ipcc co resident takes about 2 gig, unity and the
> > subscriber would take 1 gig each. You will need additional ram for the host
> > OS itself so make sure you install it on an OS which has the ability to go
> > above 4 gig (not windows 2000 server).
> >
> > Think you can also have another vm instance and run the rest on it, just
> > make sure you have the ability to add ram to it.
> >
> > HTH,
> > -------------------------------------------
> > thanks,
> > Avner Izhar
> > CCIE#15999 (Voice), CCVP, CCSI# 31623
> > Technical Training Manager
> > CCBOOTCAMP - A Cisco Sponsored Organization (SO)
> > Email: aizhar@ccbootcamp.com
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> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> > Ashwin Iyer
> > Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2008 22:38
> > To: Cisco certification
> > Cc: diehard.j@gmail.com
> > Subject: cisco lab setup using vmware
> >
> > hi
> >
> > I am looking for details on how could I install CCM PUB,SUB,UNITY,IPCC
> > using
> > vmware images on a single machine.Has someone tried this before? Could
> > we
> > run the dynamips & IP blue phones on the same machine as well.
> >
> > If it is not possible to have everything on a single machine please let
> > me
> > know how many machine would be required to setup the voice lab and what
> > should be their specifications.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
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