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OnCommand Performance Manager 1.0 question: multiple instance

chao — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:30:00 GMT

According OPM 1.0 IAG, a single OPM instance could support up to 6 nodes cluster. IHAC has 8-node cluster, How to deploy multiple instance OPM? in IAG, it has a note:

Attention: Adding the same cluster to more than one instance of Performance Manager impacts the performance of the cluster. When attempting to add a cluster that Performance Manager instance is already monitoring, a warning message is displayed in the GUI.

but I did not find only configure OPM by node rather than by cluster. How difference OPM instance manage difference nodes?

BTW, Only 6-nodes are too small for a monitor system. Any plan to increase the limitation?

Re: OnCommand Performance Manager 1.0 question: multiple instance

ruijuan — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 19:37:55 GMT

Hi Chao,

OPM 1.0 officially supports up to 6-node clusters due to performance limitation of OPM itself. However, we do not put a hard limit in the code to monitor a cluster that has more than 6 nodes. The scale limit is related to the combination of # of clusters, # of nodes, and # of volumes essentially. If your 8-node cluster does not have a large volume count, OPM may be able to handle it. If you add your cluster to OPM and you do not get banners like "collection taking too long" or "analysis taking too long", it will work.

I'm sorry that we do not officially support 8-node clusters in OPM 1.0. But hope the info above can help a little bit.

Thanks,

Ruijuan

Re: OnCommand Performance Manager 1.0 question: multiple instance

chao — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 13:06:07 GMT

Hi ruijuan

thank for your kindly reply.

If it's really necessary to deploy multiple OPM instance, is there any guide or document about that? I did not find useful information in IAG.

Re: OnCommand Performance Manager 1.0 question: multiple instance

ruijuan — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 13:10:22 GMT

Sorry that i forgot to mention that there is no way you can break the nodes to be managed by multiple OPM servers.

Re: OnCommand Performance Manager 1.0 question: multiple instance

chao — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 13:39:22 GMT

Do you mean OPM 1.0 may be not ready for a busy 8+ node cDOT if with many many volumes? My customer plan to expand to 16 nodes with hundreds volumes. another question if you could help, if I use OCUM 6.1+OPM1.0 and OCUM 5.2 to monitor same cDOT, does it impact cDOT performance? I read multiple OCUM 6.1 monitoring same cDOT may has impaction.

Re: OnCommand Performance Manager 1.0 question: multiple instance

ruijuan — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 13:43:21 GMT

We have qualified up to 8 node cluster during OPM 1.0 with approximately 2000 volumes in total on that cluster. But we do not officially support 8 node since there can be other factors that impact OPM performance. I'm not sure if 16 nodes with hundreds of volumes will work. But it's definitely exceeds the sizing guide limit we provided.

if you use OCUM 6.1+OPM1.0 and OCUM 5.2 to monitor same cDOT, there is performance impact on cDOT, but should be limited based on my understanding.

Re: OnCommand Performance Manager 1.0 question: multiple instance

ruijuan — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 20:18:18 GMT

Hi,

I just researched and found that we released a newer version of sizing guide in July which increased the supported scale by additional performance improvement and testing in OPM 1.0 GA.

https://fieldportal.netapp.com/Core/DownloadDoc.aspx?documentID=117830&contentID=212040

We do support to a single cluster up to 8 node now with volume limit of 500 volumes per node.

This new sizing guide was published in July after the OPM 1.0 GA in May. So there is a discrepancy.