Environment
Situation
Your current index size is 700
GB and your available disk space is 1293.14 GB for the D:\RetainStore\index path. While
you may have enough disk space for now to continue indexing message content,
you may not have enough disk space to perform the recommended weekly
maintenance on your indexes. During the course of indexing, new segments are
created. By default (configurable), on a weekly basis the nightly maintenance
will spawn the indexer process optimize your indexes by merging those new
segments into a single segment. While this is occurring, it could require free
disk space up to twice the current size of your indexes. We recommend adding
more disk space to at least provide double the current size of your indexes as
available disk space so that Retain can continue to optimize your indexes. If
you keep your indexes on the same volume as your archive files, then you'll
also want to consider for future growth of the archives as well. If it cannot
run the maintenance on the indexes, this can adversely affect the performance
of your searches in Retain.
Resolution
This
warning occurs when the volume, or
partition that the index is on, does not have enough disk space in order
to migrate the indexes, if just upgraded from a previous version of Retain, or
there is not enough disk space to optimize the indexes.
When
optimizing the indexes, the indexer will make a copy of the indexes, increasing
the disk space 2 times the size it is currently. If archive jobs are running,
the indexes will be tripled. As a
rule of thumb, in order to prevent the warnings and notifications from
appearing, it is best to have at least 3x the space of the current index size.
To stop the warning do one of the
following:
1. 1. Increase the size of the index partition to 3x
the size it is currently. Use the warning message to assist in the calculation.
For example 700 GB x 3 = 2100 GB.
a.
Check the size of the indexes on disk.
b.
Multiply the size of the indexes by 3.
c.
Increase the disk size accordingly.
2. 2. Reduce disk space. This KB article can help reduce old indexes from older versions of Retain:
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