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Illumio Administration Guide 26.x (SaaS)

Manage PCE Nodes and Clusters

This section describes how to manage PCE infrastructure, comprising core and data nodes organized into one or more clusters.

When the amount of stored data is not managed carefully, disks can become overfull. This occurrence can cause a variety of symptoms:

  • Inability to take backups

  • Failing API calls

  • General PCE functionality issues

Recommendations for Data Management

Even when these issues do not occur, a large amount of stored data creates larger database backups, which take longer to back up and restore.

To successfully manage these issues, follow these recommendations:

Identify: Know your organization's policies, backup strategies, and monitoring strategies.

Detect: Monitor ongoing disk usage.

Respond: Know how to troubleshoot and fix issues related to data storage.

Recover: Set up your PCE deployment to reduce disk usage.