Recommended Hardware for Quobyte

Quobyte provides your users and applications with the same high performance and reliable scale-out storage infrastructure on either bare metal x86 servers or your public cloud of choice. Use our features for data synchronization between clusters to combine on-prem and public cloud clusters into a grand unified global storage system.
For best results, use our recommended hardware and VM configurations. For custom configurations, such as those with separate metadata servers or to run multiple clusters, please talk to our engineers and partners.
Your choice of hardware and VMs depends on your workloads and performance requirements. You can mix different server types in a single Quobyte cluster, such as all flash for performance combined with dense HDD for archival, by utilizing our built-in policy based data management toolset.
All Flash Servers for High Performance
These servers are a great choice for intense workloads, including VMs, databases, and small file workloads. All flash is also a great choice if you need high throughput on a small amount of data or in a high-density configuration.

Supermicro 1029U-TN12RV up to 12 NVMes
- 2 Intel Xeon Gold 6226R
- 256GB RAM
- 1 NVMe drive for metadata (min 1.5TB)
- 11 NVMe drives for data
- 1 M.2 card with 240GB for the OS
- Mellanox Connect-X or Broadcom network card
Mixed Flash/HDD for Performance and Optimal Price
When your workloads are a mix of random IO and throughput, or when you have cold data, mixed servers are a great combination of both media. They provide the best price/TB without compromising workloads.
High-Density HDD for Low Cost and High Throughput
These configurations are great for throughput workloads with a lot of data, such as traditional HPC or big data. Plus, they provide a low cost for archival use-cases.

Seagate EXOS AP 4U100 with 1 node, 100 HDDs
- 2 Intel Xeon Silver 4110
- 192 GB RAM
- 2 M.2 SATA for the OS (min 240GB)
- 1 SAS SSD for Metadata (min 1.5TB each)
- 98 SAS 7.2k RPM drives for Data
- Mellanox Connect-X or Broadcom network card

Supermicro 6049P-E1CR60L+ with 60 HDDs, 6...
- 2 Intel Xeon Silver 4210R
- 192GB RAM
- 2 NVMe drives for Metadata (min. 1.5 TB)
- 1 SATA SSD for the OS
- 60 SATA 7.2k RPM drives for Data
- Mellanox Connect-X or Broadcom network card
- Optional 4 NVMe drives for Data

RNT BigFoot XXLarge with 48 HDDs, 4 NVMe...
- 2 Intel Xeon Silver 4210R
- 192GB RAM
- SAS HBA
- 1 NVMe drive for Metadata (min. 3 TB)
- 48 SATA 7.2k RPM drives for Data
- Mellanox Connect-X or Broadcom network card
- Optional 3 NVMes for Data
Public Cloud Instances
Quobyte runs on all major public clouds. However, it pays to be discerning because picking the right VMs or bare metal machines helps you get the best performance. Since local NVMes on cloud instances are not persistent, we recommend a mix of local NVMe for scratch alongside persistent disks (EBS, PD…) for storage. Quobyte can automatically tier data to persistent disks and between different types of persistent disks (e.g. SSD and cold HDD).
Oracle Cloud
The bare metal offerings on Oracle Cloud are ideal for latency sensitive and HPC applications. We recommend a configuration of three or more BM.DenseIO2.52 with local NVMes, each with
- Oracle Linux 7
- One persistent block storage device for metadata (250GB min.)
- One or more persistent block storage device for data
Download the Terraform autodeployment script for Quobyte on Oracle cloud from github
Google Cloud Platform
- CentOS 7
- One SSD-PD with 250GB for metadata
- One or more PDs (can be a mix of regular and SSD) for data, minimum 250GB
- Optional: local NVMes for scratch storage
- You can autodeploy Quobyte on Google Cloud Marketplace
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