# Capacity planning for 200GB data /day and retention period of 30 days

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/capacity-planning-for-200gb-data-day-and-retention-period-of-30-days/78037>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 9, 2017, 6:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/capacity-planning-for-200gb-data-day-and-retention-period-of-30-days/78037 "2017-03-09T18:45:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![mruthyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@mruthyu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mruthyu)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 6:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/capacity-planning-for-200gb-data-day-and-retention-period-of-30-days/78037/1 "2017-03-09T18:45:21Z")

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I have a requirement to index the data of 200GB/day with retention period of 30 days. So planning to use 3 node cluster with each node on a VM of 32GB RAM, 6TB Disk space and 8 core CPU. It is an visualization requirement and not search. Planning to have default 5 shards and 1 replica. Let me know your feedback.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2017, 6:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/capacity-planning-for-200gb-data-day-and-retention-period-of-30-days/78037/2 "2017-04-06T18:45:57Z")

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