Sizing Requirements for High Availability Deployments
Information about the sizing requirements for Cortex
XSOAR High Availability deployment. Application servers, fileshare
server, Elasticsearch.
App Servers
Cortex XSOAR recommends you have at least 2 application
servers meeting the requirements listed below, as well as a load
balancer and shared file system.
Component
Dev Environment Minimum
Production Minimum
CPU
8 CPU cores
16 CPU cores
Memory
16 GB RAM
32 GB RAM
Storage
The storage requirement
is irrespective of the file share.
100 GB SSD
250 GB SSD with minimum 1k dedicated IOPS
Depending
on the size of your log files, consider increasing this to 500 GB.
File Share Server
Cortex XSOAR recommends your file sharing server
meet the following minimum requirements.
If you are using Amazon EFS, GCP File Store, or
Azure Files, verify that you are only using these systems for your
file sharing and not as the database or application servers.
The file sharing server must be in the same virtual private
cloud as the application servers.
Component
Dev Environment Minimum
Production Minimum
Storage
100 GB SSD
250 GB SSD with minimum 1k dedicated IOPS
Elasticsearch Database Development Configuration
Environment
Number of Nodes
Elastic Node Roles
Minimum
1
Data node
Recommended
3
All three must be data nodes, but can also
function as other roles.
Elasticsearch Database Production Configuration
Environment
Number of Nodes
Elastic Node Roles
Minimum
3
All three must be data nodes, but can also
function as other roles.
