There are no size recommendations published by BMC as this would really
depend on how much data would really go into FTS depending on your
customizations but based on the record count I think somewhere between 1 and
2 TB's should be sufficiently adequate.. Most network disk drive capacities
these days fairly exceed these numbers so there's hardly a point in going
skimpy on this..
Just make sure that the shared network drive is highly available and the
network speed supporting it is the best you can get...
Joe
-----Original Message-----
From: Gadgil, Abhijeet
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 6:21 PM Newsgroups:
public.remedy.arsystem.general
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Recommended size for FTS index collection directory
You are right. A shared network drive that can be written to from below
mentioned 5 machines needs to be available.
As far as I remember the documentation says, storage size should be 2 times
that data size that is being indexed
I think the 7.6.04 configuration guide calls that out
So really if you know what all you will end up indexing, you could
extrapolate that to provision the right size of the shared network drive
Regards,
Abhijeet
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-----Original Message-----
From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Jamie
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 3:44 AM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Recommended size for FTS index collection directory
Does anyone happen to know if there is any documentation/whitepaper on the
recommended storage size for the FTS index collection directory in 7.6.04
might be? We are upgrading our currently system from 7.5 to 7.6.04 using
BMC's staging method while keeping all of our proudction data. We have a
total of 5 ARS servers in a server group and need to put the FTS idnex
collection directory on a network drive so that they all can have access to
run FTS if others fail (depends on server group ranking form). We have never
used FTS before, so I'm uncertain where to begin on requesting storage for
our network drive to hold the indexes.
Below are some numbers for entris on our main forms, if it helps:
INC: 566,983
CHG: 278,594
TSK: 71,322
PBI: 780
PKE: 284
Base Element: 490,828
RKM Articles (7.5): 8,539
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