from a search performance perspective you would want to raise the max_memtable_bytes to encompass your large lookups, but realize that your RAM memory will start to swap if you start utilizing memory system wide too much. ... View more

Our environment is a blend of both actually. The original team really had very little understanding of the implications of this. I had them order new physical servers to replace all the VM's at the indexing tier. The other issue is they have three storage technologies at play on the indexers: HBA to FC SAN, VM Datastore and NFS. Needless to say I disabled the indexers using NFS day one... ... View more