Minimum CPU, RAM, and storage requirements

This document gives the minimum CPU, RAM, and storage requirements to create an admin cluster and a user cluster on a single ESXi host.

The requirements given here are suitable for a proof-of-concept demonstration. For production hardware requirements, see CPU, RAM, and storage requirements.

Minimum CPU, RAM and storage requirements

Suppose you want an installation that has the following elements:

Note that there is only one control-plane node for the user cluster. This means that the user cluster does not have a high-availability control plane.

Then these are the minimum resource requirements:

  • 8 physical CPUs @ 2.7GHz with hyperthreading enabled
  • 40 GiB RAM
  • 450 GiB of storage

Add Cloud Logging and Cloud Monitoring

If you want to add Cloud Logging and Cloud Monitoring to the installation described in the preceding section, you need an additional 20 GiB of storage. So the minimum resource requirements would be:

  • 8 physical CPUs @ 2.7GHz with hyperthreading enabled
  • 40 GiB RAM
  • 470 GiB of storage

Example host and datastore

Here's an example of an ESXi host and a vSphere datastore that meet the requirements of the installations described in this document:

  • ESXi host configuration:

    • Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
    • Physical CPUs: 8 CPUs @ 2.7 GHz
    • Processor type: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8168 CPU @ 2.70 GHz
    • Processor sockets: 2
    • ESXi version: 6.7U3
    • vCenter Server version: 6.7U3
    • Hyperthreading: enabled

  • Datastore configuration:

    • Type: VMFS 6.82
    • Drive type: SSD
    • Vendor: DELL
    • Drive type: logical
    • RAID level: RAID1