Hardware requirements
IBM Security QRadar® Suite Software is supported and tested for AMD64 architecture.
The system disk requirements do not include the persistent storage requirements. The persistent storage requirement for IBM Security QRadar Suite Software is 3.5 TB. For more information, see Storage requirements.
Hardware requirements for IBM Security QRadar Suite Software cluster configuration
The following table shows the hardware requirements for a deployment of IBM Security QRadar Suite Software.
Node type | Number of nodes | CPU | RAM | Storage |
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Master | 3 | 8 cores | 32 GB | 120 GB |
Worker | 3 | 16 cores | 64 GB | 120 GB |
Hardware requirements for IBM Cloud managed Classic or VPC
The minimum hardware requirements for IBM Cloud® managed Classic or VPC are shown in the following table.
Node type | Number of nodes | CPU | RAM |
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Worker | 3 | 16 cores | 64 GB |
Logging and monitoring are enabled by default in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. You can disable logging and monitoring during the provisioning of the cluster.
Hardware requirements for logging and monitoring
To enable the logging subsystem for your Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, see Installing the logging subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift.
Node type | Number of nodes | CPU | RAM |
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Worker | 1 | 16 cores | 64 GB |
Hardware requirements for horizontal scaling for IBM Security QRadar SOAR
If you want to enable horizontal scaling for IBM® Security QRadar SOAR as described in Configuring resources for SOAR, check the following hardware requirements for vertical and horizontal scaling.
Request | Limit | |||
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Deployment | CPU (m) | RAM (Mi) | CPU (m) | RAM (Mi) |
Unitary SOAR pod | 8410 | 11736 | 14350 | 13744 |
Total | 8410 | 11736 | 14350 | 13744 |
Request | Limit | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Deployment | CPU (m) | RAM (Mi) | CPU (m) | RAM (Mi) |
3 by REST API component | 3 by 660 | 3 by 5080 | 3 by 6350 | 3 by 7088 |
1 by daemon component | 666 | 5080 | 6350 | 7088 |
Total | 2646 | 20320 | 25400 | 28352 |