# Hardware prerequiste

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hardware-prerequiste/144489>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 15, 2018, 10:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hardware-prerequiste/144489 "2018-08-15T10:10:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![naoufalmek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5e925/32.png) [@naoufalmek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/naoufalmek)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 10:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hardware-prerequiste/144489/1 "2018-08-15T10:10:36Z")

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hello,

I would like to know what is the minimal hardware requirement of ( CPU, RAM, STORAGE) to deploye Elasticsearch on an environment .

Thank you

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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:** [August 15, 2018, 10:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hardware-prerequiste/144489/2 "2018-08-15T10:17:13Z")

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That depends entirely on what you are going to use it for. If you can provide some details around your use case someone might be able to give some guidance.

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**Author:** ![naoufalmek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5e925/32.png) [@naoufalmek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/naoufalmek)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 10:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hardware-prerequiste/144489/3 "2018-08-15T10:33:11Z")

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i will use it for collecting and corralling logs from different sources of logs like FW, IPS , AD , Antivirus

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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:** [August 15, 2018, 10:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hardware-prerequiste/144489/4 "2018-08-15T10:39:03Z")

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How much data will you index per day? How long do you need to keep the data?

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**Author:** ![naoufalmek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5e925/32.png) [@naoufalmek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/naoufalmek)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 10:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hardware-prerequiste/144489/5 "2018-08-15T10:58:31Z")

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for data per day we cover 1500Event per second (EPS) and about long i need , is for 3 month in-line

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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:** [August 15, 2018, 11:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hardware-prerequiste/144489/6 "2018-08-15T11:13:42Z")

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How large are the events? What data volume per day does that correspond to?

I would recommend having a look at the following resources:

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

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**Author:** ![naoufalmek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5e925/32.png) [@naoufalmek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/naoufalmek)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 11:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hardware-prerequiste/144489/7 "2018-08-15T11:27:33Z")

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For large of event i dont have an exactly number because it depend on every log source , thank you christian

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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:** [September 12, 2018, 11:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/hardware-prerequiste/144489/8 "2018-09-12T11:27:43Z")

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