https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Hardware-Profile-for-Management-Nodes/m-p/161212#M45121 <P>I'm in need of some advice with regard to a hardware configuration of Management nodes in a soon to be production cluster. </P><P>Hardware was purchased for an HDP Production cluster prior my involvement. </P><P>The hardware specs for 6 Management Nodes is as follows:</P><P style="margin-left: 20px;"> HP DL380 </P><P style="margin-left: 40px;">- 2x 10 core Xeon </P><P style="margin-left: 40px;">- 128GB of RAM</P><P style="margin-left: 40px;">- 2x 300GB SAS for OS</P><P style="margin-left: 40px;">- 4x 400GB SAS SSD's for application related Services in a RAID 10 configuration. </P><P>We're trying to determine if the disk space will be adequate to handle a 150 Node Cluster and expansion up to 250 in the future. </P> Fri, 16 Sep 2022 10:46:29 GMT ssummers 2022-09-16T10:46:29Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Hardware-Profile-for-Management-Nodes/m-p/161212#M45121 <P>I'm in need of some advice with regard to a hardware configuration of Management nodes in a soon to be production cluster. </P><P>Hardware was purchased for an HDP Production cluster prior my involvement. </P><P>The hardware specs for 6 Management Nodes is as follows:</P><P style="margin-left: 20px;"> HP DL380 </P><P style="margin-left: 40px;">- 2x 10 core Xeon </P><P style="margin-left: 40px;">- 128GB of RAM</P><P style="margin-left: 40px;">- 2x 300GB SAS for OS</P><P style="margin-left: 40px;">- 4x 400GB SAS SSD's for application related Services in a RAID 10 configuration. </P><P>We're trying to determine if the disk space will be adequate to handle a 150 Node Cluster and expansion up to 250 in the future. </P> Fri, 16 Sep 2022 10:46:29 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Hardware-Profile-for-Management-Nodes/m-p/161212#M45121 ssummers 2022-09-16T10:46:29Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Hardware-Profile-for-Management-Nodes/m-p/161213#M45122 <P>I would say go with 256 gb ram. but 128 is def do-able and often seen in the field. Go with Dual 10Gbps NIC. I would go with at least 12-2TB drives broken down into</P><P> 2 OS drives with raid-1 mirror. </P><P>6 drives in raid-10 (metadata)</P><P>4 spare drives</P> Fri, 04 Nov 2016 09:05:02 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Hardware-Profile-for-Management-Nodes/m-p/161213#M45122 sunile_manjee 2016-11-04T09:05:02Z