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The design and architecture of OpenShift Container Platform place resource hosting limits on an OpenShift cluster. Red Hat offers support for OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 up to these limits, as described in Planning your environment according to object maximums.
Our minimum recommended control-plane node configuration is a PowerEdge R650 server with dual Intel® Gold 6330 CPUs and 192 GB RAM. As the Red Hat resource requirements show, this node is large enough for a 250-node cluster and higher. Dell Technologies recommends that you do not scale beyond 200 nodes, which means that the proposed reference design is sufficient for nearly all deployments. The following table shows our node sizing recommendations:
Number of compute nodes |
CPU cores* |
Memory (GB) |
25 |
4 |
16 |
100 |
8 |
32 |
200 |
16 |
64 |
*Does not include provisioning of at least four cores per node for infrastructure I/O handling.