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NetFlow data can get away on you, there could be several Gigabytes of NetFlow data each hour, day or month, this is all very dependant on where you are generating netflow from, the number of active users and the types of applications they are using. A longer discussion on this will be written up, but in summary, if you are expecting large amounts of NetFlow data, then you will want to consider storing the MongoDB database and the NetFlow data into a filesystem with 50 gigabytes or more. During development we found 20gigabytes 20 gigabytes was enough for our purposes, but caused problems with the flow files mainly. If you are using the Opmantek NMIS8 Virtual Machine please check out our instructions on Resizing NMIS VMs.
opFlow is highly configurable and customisable, so it is easy to just have the flowd data be a seperate filesystem and update the configuration accordingly.
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