Understanding device configuration extraction limit.

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

This article explains how many device configuration can be extracted from Smarts NCM to a file on a local disk using GUI.

Environment

NCM - 10.1.x

Resolution

Number of device configuration which can be extracted varies based on numerous criteria like "Total number of devices managed by AS (Application Server)", "Average device config size", etc. 

Attached NCM Sizing sheet to this article where user would pass values which gives limit for each actions/operations in single job that can be performed in NCM GUI.

Sample screenshot highlighted in BLUE is added below:

URL to download NCM Sizing Sheet : NCM_10.1.x_Sizing_Sheet