We're running vcenter 5.1.0b with an Oracle 11g database.
We've had various performance problems such as slow search results, slow vcenter service startup, etc. So I started to look at the database. It turns out it has 854 tables! Lots of VPX_HIST_STATX_XX tables. And some of the various tables I checked like vpx_event_arg and they have over 10 million entries.
Looking at Administration | Database Retention Policy, I have 120 days of tasks and 61 days of events stored. I suppose I could decrease that, but still something is obviously wrong.
Are there some performance things I could ask our DBAs to do manually? For example some tables I could truncate or drop?