Cluster configuration best practices - Azure

Couchbase Server
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Hi,

On my way to deploy a cluster in Azure and would like to know what are the minimum requirements and best practices for installing Couchbase.

I thought splitting services into different machines and have 3 for Data, 2 for Index and 2 for Query.

  1. Is it a good practice ? It will allow me to scale each service differently…
  2. Data service requires more RAM than CPU so is it OK to use D11 VM (2 cores, 14 GB RAM) ?
  3. Index service requires more CPU so is it OK to use A3 VM (4 cores, 8 GB RAM) ?
  4. What about Query service ? does it need to be in a different VM or can I use Data/Index VMs to also host it ?
    If it’s also a good practice to separate it, Do I need more RAM or CPU ?

Couldn’t find anywhere a good explanation on separation of services and minimum requirements…
Thanks a Head.

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Hi ,i’m same with your cluster set, i find that split services into different machines is more stable and don’t compete for resources.

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Thanks for that.
What about the machine types? Is it ok?
Query service to have more CPU or RAM?

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The view query and K/V option is running on data server, N1ql is on query server.When you create GSI there is only one index server working.So i think what type machine to use it is depended on your workload、query type.By the way the CouchBase recommends 4 core and 8G ram at least.