VSOM & VSMC not reporting storage correctly

[jwood.ok]

We updated to 7.8 last week.  After updating, from VSOM, all our remote VSMC's were showing 7.95 G used, though it was apparent from footage that we were recording and a lot more would be used.  upon restarting the services or the whole VSMC, it appears that in VSOM, it is now reporting more or less correctly.  I don't know if it is going to update or not, but at least it isn't showing 7.96 G used anymore.

Now, moving over to the VSMC themselves, if I look at recordings, it shows them, but for storage, for example of one of them it shows 42.23M as estimation, and current is 9.57 M.  Now maybe I"m not up on all the indicators, but to me, M would stand for Megabyte?  If I actually ssh into the VSMC, it shows gigs used on the different partitions as opposed to megs.  Has anyone seen this or is it a known issue?

[Scott Olsen]

Hey John,

As far as I'm aware, these 'estimates' in the VSMC/CDAF console have *never* been accurate.  At least I haven't seen or heard an explanation that makes sense.

It irked me so much that about 6 months ago, I wrote my own query to suss-out actual useful data.  

https://supportforums.cisco.com/discussion/13014101/vsms-reporting-script

Obviously not Cisco supported, and may no longer work as intended if the UMS schema has changed significantly in 7.8.

That being said, if it provides something of value for you, I'd love to hear about it!  I created it mainly to identify VMD duty cycle 'hogs' as well as trending data.

Cheers!

[jwood.ok]

Scott,

Thanks for the reply.  It may be that they aren't accurate, but I've never seen them be off by hundreds of gigs before!  We updated from 7.5.1 to 7.8.  I mean, I guess in the end, I'm happy that it is actually recording, but it is strange that it isn't even in the neighborhood of being right!  I'll take a look at your script though!