RE: cisco lab setup using vmware

From: Avner Izhar (aizhar@ccbootcamp.com)
Date: Tue Feb 26 2008 - 00:03:20 ARST


Hi Richard,

Advanced controller is raid, having 4 disks with a single controller might
move the bottleneck somewhere else (to the controller).

Have a look at brand name servers (HP, IBM, Dell ...) , they usually have
solutions for that.

HTH,

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From: diehard J [mailto:diehard.j@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 23:20
To: Avner Izhar
Cc: Ashwin Iyer; Cisco certification
Subject: Re: cisco lab setup using vmware

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 <HYPERLINK
"mailto:aizhar@ccbootcamp.com"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
CCIE#15999 (Voice), CCVP, CCSI# 31623
Technical Training Manager
CCBOOTCAMP - A Cisco Sponsored Organization (SO)
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From: diehard J [mailto:HYPERLINK "mailto:diehard.j@gmail.com"
\ndiehard.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 <HYPERLINK
"mailto:aizhar@ccbootcamp.com" \naizhar@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)
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Behalf Of Ashwin Iyer
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2008 22:38
To: Cisco certification
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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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