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
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
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