# Elasticsearch Best practice sizing

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-best-practice-sizing/150782>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 3, 2018, 12:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-best-practice-sizing/150782 "2018-10-03T00:32:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![fcalegari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@fcalegari](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/fcalegari)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 12:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-best-practice-sizing/150782/1 "2018-10-03T00:32:43Z")

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Hi , we need to know if Is writting a Best practice to sizing the elastic architecture.

How many servers we need for the clúster?  
What disk space ,memory , cpu Is recommended for each server?

Best practice to calculate ir.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 5:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-best-practice-sizing/150782/2 "2018-10-03T05:32:27Z")

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May I suggest you look at the following resources about sizing:

[https://www.elastic.co/elasticon/conf/2016/sf/quantitative-cluster-sizing](https://www.elastic.co/elasticon/conf/2016/sf/quantitative-cluster-sizing)

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2018, 5:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-best-practice-sizing/150782/3 "2018-10-03T05:43:20Z")

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Depending on your use-case, the following links may also be useful:

> **[Sizing Hot-Warm Architectures for Logging and Metrics in the Elasticsearch...](https://www.elastic.co/blog/sizing-hot-warm-architectures-for-logging-and-metrics-in-the-elasticsearch-service-on-elastic-cloud)**
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> These are exciting times! Elasticsearch Service on Elastic Cloud recently added support for a wide range of hardware choices and deployment templates, which makes it perfectly suited for efficient han...

[https://www.elastic.co/webinars/using-rally-to-get-your-elasticsearch-cluster-size-right](https://www.elastic.co/webinars/using-rally-to-get-your-elasticsearch-cluster-size-right)

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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:** [October 31, 2018, 5:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-best-practice-sizing/150782/4 "2018-10-31T05:43:22Z")

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