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System requirements

The system requirements listed in this section are both for the Sentry node and the Validator node.

The minimum system requirements allow you to run the nodes, but the setup may not be future-proof.

The recommended system requirements ensure that the nodes are future-proof. However, there is no upper limit to future-proofing your nodes.

Warning

You must always run the sentry node and the validator node on separate machines.

Minimum system requirements

  • RAM: 32 GB
  • CPU: 8-core
  • Storage: 2.5 TB SSD

Info

For Amazon Web Services (AWS), the equivalent of the minimum requirements instances are, with unlimited credits selected:

  • For Sentry: c5.2xlarge
  • For Validator node: c5.4xlarge
  • RAM: 64 GB
  • CPU: 16-core
  • Storage: 5 TB SSD
  • Bandwidth: 1 Gbit/s

Info

For Amazon Web Services (AWS), the equivalent of the recommended requirements instance is m5d.4xlarge.

For OVH, the equivalent of the recommended requirements instance is infra-3.

For network, expect 3-5 TB of data transferred per month.