VMware Cloud Foundation - Design Decision - Provide a minimum of 400 GB of NFS version 3 shared storage to the vRealize Log Insight cluster in each region.

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• VMware
• VMware Cloud Foundation

Issue/Introduction

Design Decision: Provide a minimum of 400 GB of NFS version 3 shared storage to the vRealize Log Insight cluster in each region.

Resolution

Design Justification: 
Accommodates log archiving from 200 logging sources for 90 days.

Design Implication: 
"You must manually maintain the vRealize Log Insight archive blobs stored on the NFS store, selectively cleaning the datastore as more space is required.

You must increase the size of the NFS shared storage if you configure vRealize Log Insight to monitor more logging sources or more vRealize Log Insight workers are added.

You must enforce the archive policy directly on the shared storage.

If the NFS mount does not have enough free space or is unavailable for a period greater than the retention period of the appliance, vRealize Log Insight stops ingesting new data until the NFS mount has enough free space, becomes available, or archiving is disabled.

When using two availability zones, ensure that the NFS share is available in both availability zones."

This design decision is supported on VCF version 4.1 and higher. 

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