Production Considerations

Table of Contents

Overview
Server Hardware
Networking
vCPU Allocation
Memory Allocation

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.

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