# Recommended Initial Cluster Configuration **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [October 4, 2016, 4:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommended-initial-cluster-configuration/62188 "2016-10-04T16:34:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![krmathieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5e925/32.png) [@krmathieu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/krmathieu)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2016, 4:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommended-initial-cluster-configuration/62188/1 "2016-10-04T16:34:19Z")
I need to create a cluster to support approximately 3 million 12KBish docs for a total of about 32GB worth of data. We are a small development team of about 10-15 people and won't be executing a lot of concurrent queries, but we will be doing aggregations, full-text searching, etc on the data and want the queries to be performant. Can someone recommend a good starting point as far as the number of nodes, amount of RAM, required disk space, etc to start with? Thanks. Kevin ---
**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:** [October 5, 2016, 10:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommended-initial-cluster-configuration/62188/2 "2016-10-05T10:01:56Z")
If this is production, then 3 nodes will do. Hardware wise, depends on your budget. ---
**Author:** ![krmathieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5e925/32.png) [@krmathieu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/krmathieu)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2016, 2:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommended-initial-cluster-configuration/62188/3 "2016-10-06T02:21:50Z")
@warkolm Thank you very much for the response and information! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/recommended-initial-cluster-configuration/62188/4 "2017-07-05T22:14:33Z")