Self-Service Capacity (KBA1548)

Overview 

Self-Service Data Templates are comprised of dSources, VDBs, and vFiles. These data sources are controlled by the policies configured in the Admin App of the Delphix Engine. Retention policies, just like customer are used to for existing dSources/VDBs/vFiles, free up space over time. As retention frees up the space, users will no longer be able to use those points in time to restore or branch. In Jet Stream, when a bookmark is created on the Data Template or Data Container timeline, the retention policy will not be able to remove the data that is referenced by that bookmark.

Self-Service Data Containers are comprised of VDBs provisioned from the sources defined in the Data Template. Similar to VDBs in the existing Admin App, these VDBs will share blocks with the source they are provisioned from (preventing the referenced data on the source from being removed by the retention policy). Retention for these VDBs is controlled by the standard Delphix retention policies. In addition, Self-Service will ensure that the latest data on each Self-Service branch is never removed.

In the “Capacity” pages of the Data Templates and Data Containers, there is information that can help you understand how storage is being used and how to free up that space (and how much you are able to free up). There is also information that shows how much space is being referenced by other entities, and in some cases, what those entities are. 

In its current form, we are displaying the raw capacity data in tables. Please see the FAQs here to provide a guide for how to interpret those numbers and get common questions answered quickly.

Where is the Capacity information located? 

The capacity information can be found in the Template details page for Data Templates and the Data Management page for the Data Containers.

• Data Template Capacity Page 
• Data Container Capacity Page 

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