{{:pandda_title.jpg}} {{:pandda_logo.png?nolink&400}} **PAssive Network Device Discovery and Analysis** [[:en:get_started|🔗 Get Started!]] ===== Recommended Hardware Specifications for PANDDA Network Probe and PANDDA Collector ===== To ensure optimal performance and scalability, the hardware requirements for a network probe and collector should be carefully considered based on traffic volume, processing needs, and storage capacity. ==== Operating System ==== We support only EPEL 9 distributions. **Recommended is Oracle Linux 9.5** Slower 1Gbps network monitoring deployment ==== Network Probe ==== **CPU** \\ Multi-core processor (Intel i3 Kaby Lake or higher, AMD Ryzen 3 or higher) * **Minimum:** 2 vcores **RAM** \\ * **Minimum:** 2 GB ---- ==== Collector ==== **CPU** \\ Multi-core processor (Intel i3 Kaby Lake or higher, AMD Ryzen 3 or higher) * **Minimum:** 8 vcores **RAM** \\ * **Minimum:** 16 GB **Storage** \\ * **Minimum:** 200GB ---- ==== Connectivity ==== * 100Mbps per connected probe High Performance 10Gbps and more network monitoring ==== Network Probe ==== **CPU** \\ High-performance multi-core processor (Intel Xeon Gold or AMD EPYC recommended) * **Minimum:** 10 vcores, Recommended: 16+ cores with high clock speeds (>3.0 GHz) **RAM** \\ * **Minimum:** 32 GB * **Recommended:** 64 GB or more **Network Interface Cards (NICs)** \\ * High-performance NICs with support for DPDK * For 100Gbps lines, we recommend using NVIDIA® Mellanox® ConnectX®-5 **Storage** \\ * **Minimum:** 100 GB SSD ---- ==== Collector ==== **CPU** \\ Multi-core, high-frequency processor (Intel Xeon Silver/Gold or AMD EPYC recommended) * **Minimum:** 8 cores * **Recommended:** 16+ cores **RAM** \\ * **Minimum:** 16 GB * **Recommended:** 32 GB or more **Storage** \\ * **Minimum:** 1 TB SSD (for fast access logs) * **Recommended:** 10 TB+ HDD with SSD cache ---- ==== Connectivity ==== * 0.5 Gbps per connected probe