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Sizing of EC2 Proxy appliance

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Hello,

is there a way to specify different types of EC2 proxy instances? I need a memory optimised one since I need 64 GB of ram to be able to archive some huge :twisted: VMs.

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Re: Sizing of EC2 Proxy appliance

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Hello,
Question: what makes you think, that you need an EC2 proxy appliance with 64GB RAM? Do smaller archiver appliance fail to bring the data to Glacier?

To answer your question: yes, there is a registry key for that. Support can help here (normally I would just post it, but this key is restricted for special use-cases only).

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Re: Sizing of EC2 Proxy appliance

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Hi Hannes,

yes, smaller appliance do fail, so I was told by support. I guess I will wait for them to give me the key.

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Re: Sizing of EC2 Proxy appliance

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Hello,
could I please get the case number?

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Re: Sizing of EC2 Proxy appliance

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Hello,

here it is:

05467789

for the future I'm trying to persuade my colleague to split a file server cluster in many smaller ones.

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hmm, as I read through the case, I'm not sure whether more RAM is really the solution... I will do some investigations.
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Re: Sizing of EC2 Proxy appliance

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Thanks!
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Re: Sizing of EC2 Proxy appliance

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R&D team suspected the lack of RAM as a main factor. They were not able to confirm these with the debug logs, cause log collection from the appliance failed. They suggested increasing appliance memory via the said key and seeing whether this fixes the issue. The issue hasn't re-occured, so the original assumption seems to be valid.

In v12 we are planning to decrease resource requirements for proxy appliance, though - hopefully, you won't need such a beefy machine in the next product versions.

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