Yeah I read that page too. But I'm uncertain how linear observium scales. 10 cores will be doable, but how much RAM will it take then. Guess I will have to use rrdcached to keep the disk IOs on a manageable level. The server guys will probably complain if I suck every available IO ops out of their SAN.

/Morten

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Spencer Gaw <spencerg@frii.net> wrote:

I'm not sure how current this information is but it may answer some of your questions: http://www.observium.org/wiki/Hardware_Scaling

Regards,

SG

On 11/11/2014 5:55 AM, Morten Guldager wrote:

'Aloha!

I'm in the process of evaluating observium for my organisation's needs. We have some instances running already, but my task is to do the evaluation in a more structured way. I have some questions which I will keep in different posts to keep the threads clean.

Performance:

We are looking at a network currently consisting of 4000 devices with close to 100'000 ports. These devices are well known to observium and a subset of them got auto discovered just fine. But how about performance. Will it require vast amounts of computing power? Also, our network grows quite rapidly, might be 50% bigger 12 months ahead.

I found an old thread from July 2013 where Joe Hoh describing a complex multi server setup to scale observium to something approx 2-3 times my current needs. Will I have to go through similar "struggles" to get it working? Or has observium changed much to make it scale different than it did 1.5 year ago?

Pointers to information regarding scaling observium are most welcome.