# Node Setup

Pre requisites:-

### System requirements <a href="#system-requirements" id="system-requirements"></a>

The system requirements listed in this section are both for the Sentry node and the Validator node.The **minimum** system requirements mean you can run the nodes but the setup is not future-proof.The **recommended** system requirements mean the nodes are future-proof. There is, however, no upper limit to future-proofing your nodes.You must always run the sentry node and the validator node on separate machines.

#### Minimum system requirements <a href="#minimum-system-requirements" id="minimum-system-requirements"></a>

* RAM: 32 GB
* CPU: 8-core
* Storage: 2.5 TB SSD

InfoFor Amazon Web Services (AWS), the equivalent of the minimum requirements instances are, **with unlimited credits selected**:

* For Sentry: **c5.2xlarge**
* For Validator node: **c5.4xlarge**

#### Recommended system requirements <a href="#recommended-system-requirements" id="recommended-system-requirements"></a>

* RAM: 64 GB
* CPU: 16-core
* Storage: 5 TB SSD
* Bandwidth: 1 Gbit/s

InfoFor Amazon Web Services (AWS), the equivalent of the recommended requirements instance is **m5d.4xlarge**.For OVH, the equivalent of the recommended requirements instance is **infra-3**.For network, expect 3-5 TB of data transferred per month.


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