Requirements

Recommended Requirements

Resource	Requirement
CPU Cores	4 cores minimum 8 or 16 cores are required for greater than 5 collections or 25,000 documents
Memory	16GB minimum 64GB for a large number of collections/documents
Java Version	JDK 11
Java Memory Settings - SearchBlox	XMS and XMX values are set to 8 GB by default. 16GB for larger document volume or a high number of collections. A maximum of 31 GB can be allocated.
Java Memory Settings - Elasticsearch	XMS and XMX values are set to 4 GB by default. A maximum of 31 GB can be allocated.
Operating System / VM / Cloud	Windows 10, 2012, 2016, 2019 Linux - CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux 2 VMWare / Hyper-V Supported AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Supported
Disk Space	Minimum disk space is 10GB. Disk space should be at least 2-3X the data size that needs to be indexed. If 1 GB of data needs to be indexed, then the minimum disk space should be at least 2 GB. SSD is recommended.

Recommended CPU/RAM requirements based on Documents/URLs indexed.

Documents/URLs	SearchBlox Requires	RAM on Server	Processing Power
0 - 100,000	8GB	16GB	4 cores
100,000 - 500,000	16GB	32GB	8 cores
500,000 - 1 million	31GB	64GB	16 cores
1 million +	Cluster Setup	Cluster Setup	Cluster Setup

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Tuning System Requirements

CPU and RAM requirements are a recommendation.

Requirements may vary based on the volume of documents, number of collections, index frequency and the number of search users.

Memory Tuning for SearchBlox and Elasticsearch

By default, 8 GB RAM is allocated to SearchBlox and 4 GB to Elasticsearch. Therefore minimum of 16 GB RAM is required to run SearchBlox.

Update the memory allocation in Windows by editing the <SEARCHBLOX_INSTALLATION_PATH>/start.d/jvm.ini file within the SearchBloxServer folder.

-Xmx8g
-Xms8g

Change to 16g when you have at least a 32GB server:

-Xmx16g
-Xms16g

Update the memory allocation of elasticsearch by editing <SEARCHBLOX_INSTALLATION_PATH>\elasticsearch\config\jvm.options and updating xms and xmx value in line numbers 22 and 23 as shown below

-Xmx8g
-Xms8g

Please restart the SearchBlox service after saving the changes.

Browser Compatibility

Browser	Version	Compatibility
Google Chrome	Chrome 68 and above	Admin Dashboard and Search works well in Chrome browsers. Below version 68 few features might not work
Mozilla Firefox	Firefox 40 and above	Admin Dashboard and Search works well Below version 40 few features might not work
Edge	Edge 91 and Above	Admin Dashboard and Search work well
Safari	Safari 7 and above	Admin Dashboard and Search works well Below version 7 few features might not work
Opera	Opera 44 and above	Admin Dashboard and Search works well Below version 44 few features might not work

Secure Ports used by SearchBlox

Public Ports:

SearchBlox - 8443 (https)
Analytics Cubejs - 4000 (http) & 8444 (https)
ConnectorsUI - 8446 (https)

Ports to be enabled for internal Server or Network access:

Elasticsearch - 9200 & 9201
Cluster - 9300
Multicast - 54327
Hazelcast - 5701
Zookeeper - 2000-2100 (Port range)