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Created by: Ken Snyder on 05-08-2011 03:46:26 PM
How is disk space managed with WebEx Social? Can we add more as usage goes up?
Subject: RE: Disk Usage
Replied by: Emanuel M Bola on 05-08-2011 04:30:39 PM
Hi Ken,
With WebEx Social you would have to consider three storage components when analyzing capacity & growth.
1) Storage Capacity Required for the VMFS Data Stores in VMWARE where the WebEx Social virtual machines are stored. With the latest release (2.5.1) the is a smaller footprint required for the hard drives of all virtual machines associated with the WebEx Social deployment. Most of the virtual machines (vms) are split into two disks (OS + Application) which are very small in size. Combined consume space on average per vm is less than 20GB. These should be static with no really growth requirements over time. But if you needed to grow you could potentially add a new VMFS disk to the ESXi host and split the virtual machines between VMFS disks.
2) Storage Capacity Required for the databases (Oracle DB, MongoD
used by QUAD. These have they own growth requirements and it will depend on the deployment size, number of users, usage models etc, But whether you're using FC - SCSI LUNs or NFS Exports to house the database, these can be easily expanded, or new bigger storage devices can be presented to these virtual machines from which the databases can be migrated into the the larger data stores.
3) Storage Capacity Required for the the NFS Exports (WebEx Social Document Repository, WebEx Social logs, etc). Outside the database growth capacity, the NFS v4 Export required by WebEx Social is equally as important. It houses all of the documents uploaded into WebEx Social, it also houses the logs from each application node, among other components (diagnostics). Similar to the databases, there are factors that play into the growth of this data inside the NFS Export used by WebEx Social (Deployment size, Number of Users, Usage Model, etc). If a NAS based storage system is used to serve the NFS v4 Export that WebEx Social requires, then you should be able to increase or alter the size of the NFS Export from the NAS system.
Hope this helps clarify your question.
Thanks,
Manny
Created by: Ken Snyder on 05-08-2011 03:46:26 PM
How is disk space managed with WebEx Social? Can we add more as usage goes up?
Subject: RE: Disk Usage
Replied by: Emanuel M Bola on 05-08-2011 04:30:39 PM
Hi Ken,
With WebEx Social you would have to consider three storage components when analyzing capacity & growth.
1) Storage Capacity Required for the VMFS Data Stores in VMWARE where the WebEx Social virtual machines are stored. With the latest release (2.5.1) the is a smaller footprint required for the hard drives of all virtual machines associated with the WebEx Social deployment. Most of the virtual machines (vms) are split into two disks (OS + Application) which are very small in size. Combined consume space on average per vm is less than 20GB. These should be static with no really growth requirements over time. But if you needed to grow you could potentially add a new VMFS disk to the ESXi host and split the virtual machines between VMFS disks.
2) Storage Capacity Required for the databases (Oracle DB, MongoD
used by QUAD. These have they own growth requirements and it will depend on the deployment size, number of users, usage models etc, But whether you're using FC - SCSI LUNs or NFS Exports to house the database, these can be easily expanded, or new bigger storage devices can be presented to these virtual machines from which the databases can be migrated into the the larger data stores. 3) Storage Capacity Required for the the NFS Exports (WebEx Social Document Repository, WebEx Social logs, etc). Outside the database growth capacity, the NFS v4 Export required by WebEx Social is equally as important. It houses all of the documents uploaded into WebEx Social, it also houses the logs from each application node, among other components (diagnostics). Similar to the databases, there are factors that play into the growth of this data inside the NFS Export used by WebEx Social (Deployment size, Number of Users, Usage Model, etc). If a NAS based storage system is used to serve the NFS v4 Export that WebEx Social requires, then you should be able to increase or alter the size of the NFS Export from the NAS system.
Hope this helps clarify your question.
Thanks,
Manny