# Officially recommended cluster planning **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [March 24, 2022, 8:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/officially-recommended-cluster-planning/300539 "2022-03-24T08:33:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![casterQ](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/casterq/32/93257_2.png) [@casterQ](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/casterQ)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2022, 8:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/officially-recommended-cluster-planning/300539/1 "2022-03-24T08:33:12Z")
Are there any suggestions for cluster planning and hardware resources： 1. Recommended configuration of CPU？ 2. If there are only a few servers, do you need independent master and coordinating nodes？or reuse server for multiple es instances？ ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2022, 10:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/officially-recommended-cluster-planning/300539/2 "2022-03-29T22:38:30Z")
You'd be best off taking a look at [Benchmarking and sizing your Elasticsearch cluster for logs and metrics | Elastic Blog](https://www.elastic.co/blog/benchmarking-and-sizing-your-elasticsearch-cluster-for-logs-and-metrics) and [Quantitative Cluster Sizing | Elastic Videos](https://www.elastic.co/webinars/elasticsearch-sizing-and-capacity-planning) to give you an idea on where to start. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 10:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/officially-recommended-cluster-planning/300539/3 "2022-04-26T22:38:31Z")
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