VM Intelligent Policy - Disk space utilization

[spider328]

Is there a space sizing guideline for VM Intelligent Policy implementation? We implemented this feature and found out that this generates hundreds of xml files each about 50 to 100MB or more in size.

In a day, it generated about 700 files (X 100MB), 70GB of data (X 4 days), so it seems we should have allocated 280GB of space just for VMIP (plus of course maybe 30% allowance).

Is there a more predictable way of calculating this, like pre-implementation? 

[watsons]

which folder/directory are you referring to?   

\netbackup\online_util\fi_cntl  ? 

Check out: http://www.veritas.com/docs/000018268

I don't think there is a way to estimate the size, as they're query results and that pretty much relies on VMware APIs.

[spider328 · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the feedback.

I am looking at /usr/openv/netbakup/db/jobs/restart.

I found out what was wrong. I normally add entries to the policies using cmd and I use multiple bpplinclude -add which makes the discovery files extremely large. I had to delete those lines and just use a line query for each policy which limits the related xml file to around 4MB. 

e.g.

Using multiple query lines, size of xml file is 160MB:

/usr/openv/netbackup/db/jobs/restart> ls -lh 9062402*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 160M Mar 4 04:01 9062402.d.xml

Single line using the same set of queries reduced the size to 4MB
/usr/openv/netbackup/db/jobs/restart> ls -lh 9085885*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.0M Mar 5 16:57 9085885.d.xml