Sizing the Databases
Depending on several factors, such as the type of inventory data collected, the length of time that collected data will be kept, or the amount of database grooming that is scheduled, the size of the Configuration Manager database will grow or shrink accordingly. It is important to monitor the size of the database to ensure that it does not increase well beyond the bounds of acceptable size.
Note
Use Operations Manager to monitor the database size along with other components in the Configuration Manager hierarchy.
It is common to expect to store about 5MB of data for each managed client. The size of the database can be estimated through the following formula:
Number of agents x 5MB = estimated database size
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