VMWare already released an official guideline on Recording Server file size. Please refer the link below for the deatils.
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Recently I have been asked quit a lot on how to plan the storage size for holding the Session Recording video files. It is really not a easy question. And let me tell you the story here.
The sizing of session recording data file is a bit complex. As you may observe, the file size will fluctuate with different use case like daily office user or multimedia creator. From the Horizon Performance Tracker you can see the frame rate is going up and down during user operation. And this fluctuation will making the file size difficult to calculate.
Following are examples of 2 recording files. A general user having average 9 frame rate throughout the video. And another still session with average 0.3 frame rate.
Frame rate is not the only factor. The bitrate within a single video file also keep changing. Which making the calculation even more complicated.
So what can we do? My suggestion is making the calculation by reasonable assumptions. Following is a suggested assumption from pass experience. But it is just a baseline and may not applicable on every cases. Please adjust it by the actual onsite observation.
Normal user: average 10 frame rate / 1 Mbps bitrate / MP4 H.264 AVC
Media rich user: average 15 frame rate / 4 Mbps bitrate / MP4 H.264 AVC
Base on those assumptions, the next step will be finding a suitable tools for calculation.
After several try, following is a free tools found on internet which I personally found useful. You may input the information above and get the file size calculated automatically. Then you can multiple the result with total number of user to get the full sizing.
Hope this sharing can help! See you.
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