# VM vs baremetal

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/vm-vs-baremetal/175292>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 4, 2019, 12:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/vm-vs-baremetal/175292 "2019-04-04T00:39:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![explorer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9d8465/32.png) [@explorer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/explorer)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2019, 12:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/vm-vs-baremetal/175292/1 "2019-04-04T00:39:21Z")

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Hello everybody, for hosting on a medium size machine, is it better to deploy multiple nodes on the bare metal machine or create multiple VMs with single node each?

Thanks

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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:** [May 2, 2019, 12:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/vm-vs-baremetal/175292/2 "2019-05-02T00:39:24Z")

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