System Requirements
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For production servers, high quality server equipment is needed. Keep
in mind, if you run 10 Virtual Servers on one machine and you then
experience a hardware failure, 10 services are lost. {pve}
supports clustering, this means that multiple {pve} installations
can be centrally managed thanks to the included cluster functionality.

{pve} can use local storage (DAS), SAN, NAS and also distributed
storage (Ceph RBD). For details see xref:chapter-storage[chapter storage].


Minimum Requirements, for Evaluation
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* CPU: 64bit (Intel EMT64 or AMD64)

* Intel VT/AMD-V capable CPU/Mainboard for KVM Full Virtualization support

* RAM: 1 GB RAM, plus additional RAM used for guests

* Hard drive

* One NIC


Recommended System Requirements
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* CPU: 64bit (Intel EMT64 or AMD64), Multi core CPU recommended

* Intel VT/AMD-V capable CPU/Mainboard for KVM Full Virtualization support

* RAM: 8 GB RAM, plus additional RAM used for guests

* Hardware RAID with batteries protected write cache (``BBU'') or flash
 based protection

* Fast hard drives, best results with 15k rpm SAS, Raid10

* At least two NICs, depending on the used storage technology you need more