Hi Buddies,
Does anyone knows if changing the Vcops collect interval from 5 to 1 min has impact on the storage.
by collecting each 5 min, I can access store 1 year informations.
Passing from 5 min to 1 min mean collecting five times more. do I still can store 1 year informations. How it works ?
Please HELP.
this is not really a recommended change.
it's not only about storage, but cpu/mem load on the system AND on the service being pooled (e.g. vCenter for example)
Yes, yes it will have an impact on storage. Your storage requirements space-wise would be 5x that of 5min collection intervals (default and what the calculator will assume). In terms of Disk I/O, CPU, and Mem, you'd take a hit as well. From a dynamic threshold perspective, you'll be significantly increasing the quantity of buckets DTs will need to analyze so expect some resource constraints when they kick off. From a DT perspective, you'd want to consider dropped the DT window down from 6 months to something more manageable to keep equal sizing reqs.. maybe 1-2 months. Other tasks might also have issues.. gradinka cited that as well. 1-min granularity is not something we do often, nor do we recommend it, given the 5x more volume you're trying to grab from the data sources and then cram in to the vROps components. Remember - vROps retains data at the interval it is collected and roll-up doesn't happen.. that granularity will exist and consume resources until the data ages out based on retention criteria.
I am interested in 1 minutes intervals for disk latency. 5 minute intervals smooth out the peak latencies too much.
-MattG
Hey MattG,
Can you share your use case a little more? Is this a troubleshooting or reporting use case?
fwiw, agree with the need to go down to finer granularity for the purposes of seeing the peaks. Email me to discuss further.
Irfan
virtualirfan,
Troubleshooting. I have hosts that are peaking 200ms+ every 15 minutes. However, since vROPs rolls up the metrics every 5 minutes, the peaks are totally smoothed away in vROPs. It makes it difficult to correlate disk latency to other perf issues.
-MattG
Agreed. Feel your pain. If you have a minute, reach out to discuss further.
hey Irfan,
I am still working on the 5 min to 1 min disk latency to avoid smooting my picks.
did you please get a solution ?
what do you think about the situation ?
Thank you for helping me,
Hicham
Although not recommended, if you change the interval from 5m to 1m you will have roughly 5 times the data volume. Retention is a different setting, you could still allow for 1 year of data storage?
Yves