Should I build out a cluster master with the same hardware spec requirements as my heavy forwarder?

[sbattista09]

Should I build out a cluster master with the same hardware requirements as my heavy forwarder?

[javiergn · Accepted solution]

Our cluster master and deployment servers were sharing a VM with the following specs until very recently: 4 cores, 4 GB RAM, 50GB dedicated drive. We had 2000 UFs and 6 indexers.

The minimum spec I would go for nowadays is the following:

• Intel 64-bit chip architecture, 2 cores, 2 GHz
• 2GB RAM
• OS installation + 50GB free
• Standard 1Gb Ethernet NIC, with optional second NIC for a management network
• Linux 3.x 64-bit edition

If you can afford it get 4 cores and 4GB RAM.

Hope that helps.

Regards,
Javier

[hagjos43]

That's not enough information to go on with 100% accuracy. BUT, let me tell you about our environment and maybe that'll help.

We have two indexers, one searchhead, a handful of heavy forwarders, and hundreds of universal forwarders. When we moved to the two indexer model we just lumped our cluster master in with our deployment server and have had zero issues in over 6-7 months.

Hope that helps!

[sbattista09]

glad to hear! we have 4 indexers and about 800 to 1000 UF's. Im looking for a guild line to spec out a Cluster master.

[hagjos43]

Ours is a VM:
4 cores, 6 GB of RAM, around 100GB of storage to start (being a VM we can grow it as needed).