What amount of local storage space should I use for a Message processor box?

Hi @Anil Sagar,

I was going through the link below that gives details about the hardware requirements of the private cloud/on-prem edge -

http://docs.apigee.com/private-cloud/latest/installation-requirements

It is recommended to give storage of 100GB for a machine that contains both routers and message processors. If we want to keep them separate then can you please let me know what storage size is recommended?

Thanks,

Santosh

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The storage space estimate there is pretty liberal. The main reason these machines will consume storage is for logging.

Accordingly, you can modify the storage space to be appropriate for your installation. If you have an active log management approach for the machines you manage, in which you clear out old logs after 30 days, then you need less storage. If you keep logs for 6 months on the machine, then you need more storage.

If you have a low request rate, let's say 10 tps, then you need correspondingly less storage for logs. If you have a high request rate, let's say 1000 tps, then you need correspondingly more storage for logs.

The 100gb is a good starting point, but it's an estimate. A guess. We do not know, exactly, how 100gb of disk space translates into a number of log messages, or even a number of weeks or months of log data. That translation will be different for every installation.

If you would like to be conservative, use 50gb of local storage for the Router and 50gb for the MP.

If you want to allow more log storage, use 100gb for each machine.

if you want to allow less log storage and plan to clear log files more often, then use 30gb of storage for each machine.

Good luck!

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The storage space estimate there is pretty liberal. The main reason these machines will consume storage is for logging.

Accordingly, you can modify the storage space to be appropriate for your installation. If you have an active log management approach for the machines you manage, in which you clear out old logs after 30 days, then you need less storage. If you keep logs for 6 months on the machine, then you need more storage.

If you have a low request rate, let's say 10 tps, then you need correspondingly less storage for logs. If you have a high request rate, let's say 1000 tps, then you need correspondingly more storage for logs.

The 100gb is a good starting point, but it's an estimate. A guess. We do not know, exactly, how 100gb of disk space translates into a number of log messages, or even a number of weeks or months of log data. That translation will be different for every installation.

If you would like to be conservative, use 50gb of local storage for the Router and 50gb for the MP.

If you want to allow more log storage, use 100gb for each machine.

if you want to allow less log storage and plan to clear log files more often, then use 30gb of storage for each machine.

Good luck!

Hi @Dino ,

Thank you for the reply. This is very useful.

Regards,

Santosh