DX Unified Infrastructure Management

Currently our NFA harvester datafiles directory (at D:\NetQos\NFA\Netflow\datafiles) is at about 500gb.

Is there any way to move some of the larger subdirectores (such as HarvesterArchive or ReaperArchive)

onto a different drive, or do these all have to stay within the datafiles folder?

We don't have a procedure to change the path of "just" the Datafiles directory. Please see the following docs for the steps to backup the Harvester, reinstall to a new drive, restore your data, and point the database settings to the correct new location:

Tech Tip: How to change drive path of an NFA installation and retain data.

Also, please see the following doc for the steps to modify the Data Retention settings. You can use these to save space by shortening the data retention periods:

How does the new Data Retention Service work in NFA 9.1.x?

>> We don't have a procedure to change the path of "just" the Datafiles directory…

We were actually looking for a way to move only the 2 large subdirectories within the Datafiles directory.

Is there any issue with using Windows mountpoints to relocate data onto another volume?

I haven't heard of anyone testing that out. That would be OS customization rather than configuration of NFA itself.

The datafiles directories are based on the 'harvesterInstallRoot' setting in the database, but this also affects everything else on the Harvester as well, so it does not look like there is a way to just move the datafiles directories.

We have configured Windows "mountpoints" for the ReaperArchive and ReaperArchive15 folders:

• In VMware, created 2 additional virtual disks
• Stopped CA services on the Harvester
• Renamed ReaperArchive and ReaperArchive15 folders to ReaperArchive-sav and ReaperArchive15-sav
• Created empty ReaperArchive and ReaperArchive15 folders
• Using DiskManager, formatted the 2 new disks and assigned them as mountpoints on ReaperArchive and ReaperArchive15
• Copied all files from ReaperArchive-sav to ReaperArchive and copied all files from ReaperArchive15-sav to ReaperArchive15
• Restarted CA services
• After some time and validation, deleted the ReaperArchive-sav and ReaperArchive15-sav folders

Although we still have performance issues with the harvester (reported elsewhere in this forum), it appears to be functioning the same as it was before this modification.

The rationale for relocating those 2 directories was that the amount of file entries was huge - ReaperArchive had 216000 files totaling 200gb, and ReaperArchive15 had 587000 files totaling 33gb.