Ubiquiti NVR Performance Improvement
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Our NVR is on AWS S3 as the storage so no problem there.
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How would you be able to sustain it on AWS?
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@krisleslie said in Ubiquiti NVR Performance Improvement:
How would you be able to sustain it on AWS?
In what way do you mean?
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@scottalanmiller if the nvr is in the cloud, that's gotta be a lot of data going over WAN.
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@krisleslie said in Ubiquiti NVR Performance Improvement:
How would you be able to sustain it on AWS?
Is a VM in AWS, that's why. Data is not going over WAN is in the same zone.
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With that in mind, if adding additional drives will add to the read/write performance, then I should be able to just add additional sas drives. I only have 8 bays for storage. 4 are being used.
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@dbeato said in Ubiquiti NVR Performance Improvement:
@krisleslie said in Ubiquiti NVR Performance Improvement:
How would you be able to sustain it on AWS?
Is a VM in AWS, that's why. Data is not going over WAN is in the same zone.
The video feeds are going up your WAN pipe to the NVR though. how much bandwidth does that take? And what kind of ingust charges are you getting from AWS for it?
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@jaredbusch said in Ubiquiti NVR Performance Improvement:
are going up your WAN pipe to the NVR though. how much bandwidth does that take? And what kind of ingust charges are you getting from AWS for it?
Injest is not a problem, outgoing is always what costs in AWS.
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@mike-davis Yes, but they are all tied to their ubiquiti account so if they go to video.ubnt.com it isn't too bad. Howerver, the farm is broken up into different sections, 3 primary sections, so it works pretty well for them.
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@krisleslie - I have not setup the software recently but last time I did about 6 months ago it did not run very well on Windows. After moving the install to Ubuntu it ran much better.
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@krisleslie said in Ubiquiti NVR Performance Improvement:
@scottalanmiller if the nvr is in the cloud, that's gotta be a lot of data going over WAN.
Yeah, but AWS has massive pipes, way more than your LAN. Your WAN might not be able to handle it, but AWS sure can.
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@dbeato said in Ubiquiti NVR Performance Improvement:
@jaredbusch said in Ubiquiti NVR Performance Improvement:
are going up your WAN pipe to the NVR though. how much bandwidth does that take? And what kind of ingust charges are you getting from AWS for it?
Injest is not a problem, outgoing is always what costs in AWS.
@dbeato so to make sure I understand you, you have your NVR installed as a vm on AWS and you use your main WAN to continuously upload to AWS storage correct?
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@krisleslie said in Ubiquiti NVR Performance Improvement:
@dbeato said in Ubiquiti NVR Performance Improvement:
@jaredbusch said in Ubiquiti NVR Performance Improvement:
are going up your WAN pipe to the NVR though. how much bandwidth does that take? And what kind of ingust charges are you getting from AWS for it?
Injest is not a problem, outgoing is always what costs in AWS.
@dbeato so to make sure I understand you, you have your NVR installed as a vm on AWS and you use your main WAN to continuously upload to AWS storage correct?
Correct...
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@dbeato said in Ubiquiti NVR Performance Improvement:
@krisleslie said in Ubiquiti NVR Performance Improvement:
@dbeato said in Ubiquiti NVR Performance Improvement:
@jaredbusch said in Ubiquiti NVR Performance Improvement:
are going up your WAN pipe to the NVR though. how much bandwidth does that take? And what kind of ingust charges are you getting from AWS for it?
Injest is not a problem, outgoing is always what costs in AWS.
@dbeato so to make sure I understand you, you have your NVR installed as a vm on AWS and you use your main WAN to continuously upload to AWS storage correct?
Correct...
And it has additional Drives for Storage and then Archiving to S3.
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@dbeato so let me ask a stupid question, how is this hurting your WAN? Or, is this on a separate WAN away from the other part of your network? Keep in mind I'm not a network + guy at all.
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Because in my scenario I have one locale and I'm deploying another one tomorrow at our sister site. I'm going to have to purchase hardware either way I look at it.
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@krisleslie said in Ubiquiti NVR Performance Improvement:
@dbeato so let me ask a stupid question, how is this hurting your WAN? Or, is this on a separate WAN away from the other part of your network? Keep in mind I'm not a network + guy at all.
Nothing at all, I don't have it recording all the time, it is recording on motion. Nothing separate with VLANs or anything complicated.
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@krisleslie Are you viewing the camera streams on the same VM by any chance? This is known to slow down Unifi NVR server performance, should be a remote machine. From my experience, the Windows version even with RAM disk doesn't handle IO from multiple streams anywhere nearly as good as its Linux equivalent. You'd be much better off running it on the supported Linux distro of your choice IMO. Your server specs would be massive overkill for 25 cameras if you were running it on Linux.
Are you recording most of your streams at full 30 FPS? Are you able to reduce it to 15 FPS and record motion only? This should cut down Unifi NVR's IOPS quite a bit.
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@taurex said in Ubiquiti NVR Performance Improvement:
Are you recording most of your streams at full 30 FPS? Are you able to reduce it to 15 FPS and record motion only? This should cut down Unifi NVR's IOPS quite a bit.
I didn't think about changing the FPS, yes I'm noticing my NVR is THE Biggest talker on the entire network.
