Calculating Required Infrastructure Resources (Azure)
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Allocated Infrastructure Resources
When the platform is installed, it creates the following resources. Take this into account when selecting your installation configuration.
| Type | Amount | When | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data node | 1 or 3 | Always | Azure instance type (VM size) Standard_L16s_v2.
High-availability (HA) requires three nodes. |
| Data-cluster application security group | 1 per data cluster | Always | |
| Application node (AKS worker nodes) | 1 or more | Always | Azure instance type (VM size) Standard_D16s_v3 or larger or NCv3-series (GPU optimized).
High-availability (HA) requires at least two nodes. |
| Application-cluster application security group | 1 per application cluster | Always | |
| Network interface | 1 per node | Always | |
| OS boot disk (Azure managed disk) | 1 per node | Always | Premium SSD. At least 400 GB for each data node and 250 GB for each application node. |
| Public IP address | 1 per node | The platform has public IP addresses. | |
| VNet | 1 | The platform is deployed to a new VNet. | |
| Network security group | 1 | Always | See Network Security Groups Configuration (Azure). |
| Installer node with a disk, NIC, and application security group | 1 | Always | A Standard_D8s_v3 Azure VM installer node with additional resources that are used only for the platform installation and can be deleted after the installation completes. |
| AKS Cluster | 1 | ALways |