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AssigneeVMware, Inc.
InventorsPaul Pedersen, Darren Brown, Wei Li, Leah Nutman, Sergio Nakai
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The current document is directed to methods and systems that collect metric data within computing facilities, including large data centers and cloud-computing facilities. In a described implementation, input metric data is compressed by replacing each metric data point with a one-bit, two-bit, four-bit, or eight-bit compressed data value. During a first time window following reception of a metric data point, the metric data point remains available in uncompressed form to facilitate data analysis and monitoring functionalities that use uncompressed metric data. During a second time window, the metric data point is compressed and stored in memory, where the compressed data point remains available for data analysis and monitoring functionalities that use compressed metric data for detection of peaks, periodic patterns, and other characteristics. Finally, the compressed data point is archived in mass storage, where it remains available to data-analysis and management functionalities for a lengthy time period.
A metric-data collection-and-storage subsystem within a distributed computer system, the metric-data collection-and-storage subsystem comprising:
A method that efficiently stores metric data points in a computer system having one or more processors;
A physical data-storage device that stores a sequence of computer instructions that, when executed by one or more processors within one or more computer systems that each includes one or more processors, one or more memories, and one or more data-storage devices, control the one or more computer systems to:
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