I haven't looked at these settings in a while but we have recently built a new vSphere 5.1 environment so I thought I'd revisit and review . I have generally stuck with defaults modifying the 5 minutes statistics level to "2" (see attached). vCenter logging is set to "Information (Normal logging)". These seem sufficient for my needs but, I was curious if others have toyed with these settings and found advantages or disadvantages to modifying further.
I understand this is a more complicated calculus that varies depending on environment, requirements, resources, etc. but, I am just curious if there are strong opinions for an alternate configuration considered better than the defaults. Just trying to find the right balance of information and manageability. I currently don't have an active lab or I'd try different combinations myself.