Hardware Guidelines for the SharePoint Online Index Server

Updated

Verify that the Index Server for SharePoint Online meets the hardware guidelines. The Index Server stores metadata, and provides browsing and searching of backed up SharePoint Online sites.

Environment

Small

Medium

Application

25 TB

50 TB

Index

200 GB

400 GB

Objects per node (estimated)

50 million

100 million

Guidelines

CPU or vCPU

4 cores

8 cores

RAM

8 GB

16 GB