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Hardware Sizing Recommendations

Table 1.2. Hardware sizing recommendations

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50 MB/second sustained throughput and thousands of events per second
  • 1 - 2 nodes

  • 8 or more cores per node, although more is better

  • 6 or more disks per node (solid state or spinning)

  • 2 GB memory per node

  • 1 GB bonded NICs

100 MB/second sustained throughput and tens of thousands of events per second
  • 3 - 4 nodes

  • 8 or more cores per node, although more is better

  • 6 or more disks per node (solid state or spinning)

  • 2 GB of memory per node

  • 1GB bonded NICs

200 MB/second sustained throughput and hundreds of thousands of events per second
  • 5 - 7 nodes

  • 24 or more cores per node (effective CPUs)

  • 12 or more disks per node (solid state or spinning)

  • 4 GB of memory per node

  • 10 GB bonded NICs

400 - 500 MB/second sustained throughput and hundreds of thousands of events per second
  • 7 - 10 nodes

  • 24 or more cores per node (effective CPUs)

  • 12 or more disks per node (solid state or spinning)

  • 6 GB of memory per node

  • 10 GB bonded NICs