How to force Usage Meter 3.6.x to scale according to the environment

Products

• VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:
Usage Meter will error out with timeouts collecting to vCenter, NSX, or other endpoints.

Environment

VMware vCloud Usage Meter 3.6.x

Cause

Usage Meter 3.6.x measures endpoints at a granular level in comparison to previous versions.
This can result in the data collections timing out if the Usage Meter appliance is collecting from multiple endpoints.

Resolution

This resolve this issue:

1. Increase the memory of Usage Meter virtual machine to 12 GB. You may also want to increase the vCPU for the appliance to an appropriate amount.
2. Access Usage Meter by the command line interface.
3. Edit the configuration file with the following command: vi /usr/share/tomcat/conf/tomcat.conf
4. At the line with -Xmx change the value to: -Xmx10G
5. Save the file with the following command ":x"
6. Reboot the appliance.

Note: The memory and value next to -Xmx can be changed appropriately if more memory is needed in comparison to the environment.