Purge old VC performance Data

Hi All,

I have a VC server and DB on a different Server. My client has asked me to keep performance data only for 90 days and delete the rest.

I followed article VMware KB: Purging old data from the database used by VMware vCenter Server 4.x and 5.0.x

I ran the script on my environment and this is what it returned

it has close to 2500363 rows that needs to be deleted. I have created steps that I will perform to get this going. I am running VC 5.5 and my hosts are on 5.1

• Take a backup of the Virtual Center Database.
• Power down VC Server test1 and the Database server test2
• Copy the vmdk/vmx files of server test2 to another folder (this is as a backup)
• Power on test2 and purge the files of the Database as per article
• Once the purging is complete; power on the VC Server.
• Verify the VC and DB connection

please let me know if this looks ok or anything else needs to be done

Thanks in advance