To install HCP for cloud scale on on-premises hardware for production use, you must provision at least four instances (nodes) with sufficient CPU, RAM, disk space, and networking capabilities. This table shows the hardware resources required for each instance of an HCP for cloud scale system for a minimum qualified configuration and a standard qualified configuration.
|
Resource |
Minimum configuration |
Standard configuration |
|---|---|---|
|
CPU |
Single CPU, 10-core |
Dual CPU, 20+-core |
|
RAM |
128 GB |
256 GB |
|
Available disk space |
(4) 1.92 TB SSD, RAID10 |
(8) 1.92 TB SSD, RAID10 |
| Network interface controller (NIC) | (2) 10 Gb Ethernet NICs | (2) 25 Gb Ethernet NICs or (4) 10 GB Ethernet NICs |
Important: Each instance uses
all available RAM and CPU resources on the server or virtual machine on which it's
installed.