Production Considerations
Table of Contents
Overview
This page documents considerations for deploying production-grade MinIO Tenants on Kubernetes infrastructure.
Server Hardware
MinIO is hardware agnostic and runs on a variety of hardware architectures ranging from ARM-based embedded systems to high-end x64 and POWER9 servers.
The following recommendations match MinIO’s Reference Hardware for large-scale data storage:
Processor |
Dual Intel Xeon Scalable Gold CPUs with 8 cores per socket. |
|---|---|
Memory |
128GB of Memory per pod |
Network |
Minimum of 25GbE NIC and supporting network infrastructure between nodes. MinIO can make maximum use of drive throughput, which can fully saturate network links between MinIO nodes or clients. Large clusters may require 100GbE network infrastructure to fully utilize MinIO’s per-node performance potential. |
Drives |
SATA/SAS HDDs with a minimum of 8 drives per server. |
Networking
MinIO recommends high speed networking to support the maximum possible throughput of the attached storage (aggregated drives, storage controllers, and PCIe busses). The following table provides general guidelines for the maximum storage throughput supported by a given NIC:
NIC bandwidth (Gbps) |
Estimated Aggregated Storage Throughput (GBps) |
|---|---|
10GbE |
1GBps |
25GbE |
2.5GBps |
50GbE |
5GBps |
100GbE |
10GBps |
vCPU Allocation
MinIO benefits from allocating vCPU based on the expected per-host network throughput. The following table provides general guidelines for allocating vCPU for use by MinIO pods running on a worker node based on the total network bandwidth supported by that pod:
Host NIC Bandwidth |
Recommended Pod vCPU |
|---|---|
10GbE or less |
8 vCPU per pod. |
25GbE |
16 vCPU per pod. |
50GbE |
32 vCPU per pod. |
100GbE |
64 vCPU per pod. |
Memory Allocation
MinIO benefits from allocating memory based on the total storage of each host. The following table provides general guidelines for allocating memory for use by MinIO pods running on a worker node based on the total amount of storage supported by that pod.
Total Host Storage |
Recommended Host Memory |
|---|---|
Up to 1 Tebibyte (Ti) |
8GiB |
Up to 10 Tebibyte (Ti) |
16GiB |
Up to 100 Tebibyte (Ti) |
32GiB |
Up to 1 Pebibyte (Pi) |
64GiB |
More than 1 Pebibyte (Pi) |
128GiB |