Hi all,
i am right in front of a (for me tricky) situation. The company i am working for has a worldwide deployment of vCops servers (Analytics, UI plus Database). As we have 6 Datacenters (10 Hosts each Datacenter in 1 Cluster with around 1000 VMs) around the world we have a independet vCops running on each of this Datacenters. For a combined reporting this is not the best as you can imagine. The plan now is to move to vRops picking one of the Datacenters to be the centralized Datacenter for vRops (Nodes) and all other Datacenters will send their Data (through remote collectors) to the centralized Datacenter. I am right in the middle of reading and thinking and as a first step i checked how many objects we have in total and how many metrics are collected in total. Objects are 55000, Metrics are 1312500 (numbers are from vcops audit report).
With that numbers i started checking in the sizing guide from vmware (VMware KB: vRealize Operations Manager 6.1 and 6.2 Sizing Guidelines).
I am now struggleing with the sizing guide, especially with "Multi-Node Maximum Objects per Node" which says a max of 5000 for medium and 10000 for large.....Do i understand it correct when saying, having 55000 Objects worldwide (growing) i need a minimum for 6 large Nodes to cover all the Objects?? Metrics should not be a problem but i do really struggle in understanding the Objects piece.
About the main setup of our vmware environment i do not have control as this is handled by other teams, also i have currently no idead if our network will be able to manage the impact of the data which would be send around by the collectors.
If anyone has any other advise or experience with such deployments, any help is welcome. The main goal is to have one single point to login and to maintain.
Thanks for your help in advance!