Sizing for a hybrid deployment
Learn about the sizing requirements for a hybrid deployment on Red Hat OpenShift.
Hardware sizing for a hybrid deployment on OpenShift
| Category | Resource | Demo/PoC/Trial | Production |
|---|---|---|---|
| General sizing information | |||
| Event rate throughput | Steady state events per second | 100 | 1000 |
| Burst rate events per second | 500 | 2000 | |
| Environment options | Container size | Trial | Production |
| High availability | No | Yes | |
| Hardware sizing requirements | |||
OpenShift infrastructure node (Red Hat OpenShift client machine where Docker is installed)
CPU cores, disk and memory requirements |
Minimum nodes count | 1 | 1 |
| Recommended nodes count | 1 | 2 | |
| x86 CPUs | 2 | 4 | |
| Memory (GB) | 8 | 16 | |
| Disk (GB) | 500 | 500 | |
|
OpenShift control plane (master) node(s)
CPU cores, disk and memory requirements |
Minimum nodes count | 1 | 3 |
| Recommended nodes count | 1 | 3 | |
| x86 CPUs | 8 | 8 | |
| Memory (GB) | 16 | 32 | |
| Disk (GB) | 300 | 300 | |
|
IBM® Cloud Platform Common Services node(s)
CPU cores, disk and memory requirements |
Minimum nodes count | 1 | 2 |
| Recommended nodes count | 1 | 3 | |
| x86 CPUs | 4 | 8 | |
| Memory (GB) | 16 | 32 | |
| Disk (GB) | 500 | 500 | |
|
OpenShift compute (worker) nodes
CPU cores, disk and memory requirements |
Minimum nodes count | 2 | 4 |
| Recommended node count | 3 | 5 | |
| x86 CPUs | 8 | 16 | |
| Memory (GB) | 16 | 32 | |
| Disk (GB) | 300 | 300 | |
| Service disk storage requirements (Gi) | Kafka | 5 | 80 |
| Cassandra | 100 | 600 | |
| Zookeeper | 5 | 15 | |
| CouchDB | 1 | 15 | |
| Service disk min IOPS requirements (Gi) | Kafka | 200 | 800 |
| Cassandra | 400® | 1500 | |
| Zookeeper | 50 | 100 | |
| CouchDB | 50 | 100 | |
| Total requirements Cloud Native Analytics including Red Hat OpenShift and Common Services infrastructure | |||
| Total number of node(s) | Minimum nodes count | 5 | 10 |
| Recommended nodes count | 6 | 13 | |
| x86 CPUs (minimum) | 30 | 108 | |
| x86 CPUs (recommended) | 38 | 136 | |
| Memory (GB) (minimum) | 72 | 304 | |
| Memory (GB) (recommended) | 88 | 348 | |
| Disk (GB) (minimum) | 1900 | 3600 | |
| Disk (GB) (recommended) | 2200 | 4900 | |
| Total service disk storage requirements (Gi) | 111 | 710 | |
| Total disk IOPS requirements | 700 | 2500 | |
| Total requirements Cloud Native Analytics services only | |||
| Total number of node(s) | Minimum nodes count | 2 | 4 |
| Recommended nodes count | 3 | 5 | |
| x86 CPUs (minimum) | 16 | 64 | |
| x86 CPUs (recommended) | 24 | 80 | |
| Memory (GB) (minimum) | 32 | 128 | |
| Memory (GB) (recommended) | 48 | 160 | |
| Disk (GB) (minimum) | 600 | 1200 | |
| Disk (GB) (recommended) | 900 | 1500 | |
| Total service disk storage requirements (Gi) | 111 | 710 | |
| Total disk IOPS requirements | 700 | 2500 | |