New UCS Blade Deployment

We are in the process of moving to the UCS platform for our Voice system. We will be installing CallManager (Sub), Unity Connection and UCCX during the initial deployment. Our Bill of Material has a pair of 146 GB drives in each of the Blades. I am concerned that this is not going to be a enough drive sapce for the deployment. Is it common/recomended to utilize SAN for the UCS voice deployments?
Thanks,
Joe

Storage requirements for an application are a function of both capacity and the IOPS that should be met for the application. So even though the disks may provide needed capacity, if the applications' I/O demands are high, then performance is likely to degrade if the number of disks do not provide the required response time for I/O operations.
We have some IOPs guidelines documented here:
Storage System Performance Specifications
IOPS need to be sufficient to run the aggregate load that the VM’s on that server will generate. Assuming that you wanted to run 4 VMs per blade, CUCM, CUC, CCX and CUP, and assuming the following IOPS numbers for each application:
CUCM VM IOPS ~200
CUCn VM IOPS ~130
UCCX VM IOPS ~150
CUP VM IOPS ~60
So the total application IOPS requirement would be about 540.
With a raid group, the I/O are spread across the disks. So with just two disks, and with disks each rated at ~200 IOPS, total available IOPS would be ~400, which would not be enough to meet the application IOPS requirements. So you really don’t have a lot of room for scale here.
Compare that with a UCS C210 M2 TRC1 which uses local disks (DAS) and comes with 10x 146GB hard drives. IOPS = 200 * 10 = 2000
Regards,

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