You can scale up the platform cluster to meet the increasing load. Based on the load, you can either scale up by increasing the brick size or creating or expanding a platform cluster. Three LARGE
platform bricks can be connected together to form a platform cluster. If a platform is of LARGE
or EXTRA LARGE
brick size, then you have to scale up by creating a platform cluster.
To decide platform brick size and number of platform bricks, see System Recommendations and Requirements.
Scaling up Scenarios for the Platform Cluster
- Scenario 1 : Your platform is running 5000 VMs and 1.5 million active flows
Convert your platform
MEDIUM
toLARGE
. See Increase the Brick Size of Your Setup topic. - Scenario 2 : Your platform is running a single
LARGE
node with 9000 VMs and 2 million active flowsAdd two more
LARGE
brick nodes to convert into 3-nodeLARGE
brick cluster. See Expand Clusters in the vRealize Network Insight User Guide. - Scenario 3 : Your platform is running a 3-node
LARGE
cluster with one or more colletors, 15000 VMs and 4 million active flows.Convert your existing platform nodes from
LARGE
toEXTRA-LARGE
. See Increase the Brick Size of Your Setup topic. - Scenario 4 : Your platform is running a 3-node
EXTRA-LARGE
cluster with one or more colletors, 25000 VMs and 8 million active flows.Add two more
EXTRA-LARGE
brick nodes to convert into 5-nodeExtra-LARGE
cluster. See Expand or Scale Out Clusters topic.