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Hardware Requirements

Please note

These specs are in addition to what you already need for Execution and Consensus nodes.

💻 Machine running Ubuntu (preferably LTS 22.04)

🎛️ 2 cores

⚡️ 2GB RAM

📀 20GB storage (10GB minimum)

🧮 IOPS > 8K

Execution and Consensus Requirements​

Check your clients' documentation for hardware requirements. In many cases, the Consensus client documentation also covers Execution requirements:

Hardware usage reference​

For reference, we measured resource usage based on the number of managed validators.

Tests were run on testnet, so Mainnet will require slightly more resources.

SSV node​

Resource usage by SSV node depending on number of validators

Execution and Consensus nodes​

Resource usage by Execution and Consensus nodes depending on number of validators

Best Practices​

Hardware is only part of the picture. See Best Practices for additional guidance.