# Hardware Guidelines for Azure Active Directory Access Nodes

Verify that the access nodes for Azure Active Directory meet the hardware guidelines. Access nodes run backups and other operations.

Note

- You can use index server as an access node.

- Ensure that the Active Directory agent is installed on the access node.

Guidelines |
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CPU or vCPU | 4 cores
RAM | 8 GB
Access nodes | Normal availability: 1

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