Planning to Scale up the Collector
The collector capacity is based on the
brick size. The data source that you can add to a collector is depended on the capacity of
the collector (VMs and flows).
You can scale up each collector to Extra-Large size.
You can add multiple data sources to a collector based on the supported collector
capacity. However, you cannot add same data source to multiple collectors.
Scaling up Scenarios for the
Collectors
Scenarios | Action to perform |
|---|---|
2000 VMs in a VMware
vCenter | Install one medium collector VM. Add the VMware
vCenter to this collector.
|
1000 VMs in VMware
vCenter 1 and 2000 VMs in
VMware
vCenter 2 (all of
them are in one data center) | Install one medium
collector VM. Add both VMware
vCenter s to this collector. |
1000 VMs in VMware
vCenter 1 (data center1) and 2000 VMs in
VMware
vCenter 2 (data
center2) | Install one medium
collector VM in each data center. Add VMware
vCenter 1 to a collector VM in same
data center and Add VMware
vCenter 2 to a collector VM in its data center.
|
VM count exceeds 4000, active flows exceeds 2.5 Million. | |
9,000 VMs in VMware
vCenter 1 without flows (data center1). | Install one large collector VM. Add this VMware
vCenter to the
collector. |
VM count is less than or equal to 10000, but the active flow
exceeds 5 million. | |
Two VMware
vCenter s,
VMware
vCenter 1 has
10000 VMs and 9 million active flows, and VMware
vCenter 2 has 10000 VMs and 4 million
active flows. | Install one
EXTRA-LARGE and one LARGE
collcctor. Add VMware
vCenter 1 to EXTRA-LARGE
collector and add VMware
vCenter 2 to LARGE
collector. |
One VMware
vCenter that
runs 10000 VMs and 9 million active flows. | Install one EXTRA-LARGE collector and add the
VMware
vCenter to the
collector. |
For information on adding a
VMware
vCenter
server, see the Add VMware vCenter Server
topic.