You can specify the retention in days of tasks and events data. By default you will store all data in your vCenter Server database, so it will continuous grow year by year.
Depending by your needs and your compliance requirements could be reasonable put a limit on the time frame of this kind of data.
Stats and counters are another big reason on the database grow and the main reason on the change rate of the database so also on the grow of the transaction logs. You have an useful calculator to estimate the database size depending on the number of hosts, on the number of VMs, on the counter level note that by default is 1, but you probably may need to change to 2, at least for the short time, in order to have more counters and the retention on each period. Virtualization, Cloud and Storage Architect.
Tech Field delegate. Dell TechCenter Rockstar Microsoft MVP Veeam Vanguard Nutanix NTC Languages Italiano Italian English. Purging old data from a vCenter Server DB. This post is also available in: Italian Reading Time: 4 minutes In the previous post we have talk about the VMware Horizon View Event database and how purge the old data in order to free some space. Statistics Stats and counters are another big reason on the database grow and the main reason on the change rate of the database so also on the grow of the transaction logs.
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View all page feedback. In this article. Make sure you change the default database to your vCenter database that you created earlier. The name in the installation guide is VCDB :. A window is now presented that allows you to test the ODBC connection. Proceed with clicking on the Test Data Source button to test connecting over to the vCenter database with the SQL Authentication credentials entered in one of the previous screens:. Now when you go through the install of vCenter 5.
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