topic Re: Hardware Requirements for Expedition in Expedition Discussions

Hardware Requirements for Expedition

Andy_A — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 20:21:13 GMT

What are the recommended hardware requirements for Expedition?

Re: Hardware Requirements for Expedition

dgildelaig — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 09:20:00 GMT

This is a valid question, but not easy to answer.

We will provide documentation regarding the minimum requirements for different project settings.

Expedition comes by default with 1CPU and 1.5GB of RAM (this may differ a little).

Those settings are adequate for migrations, policy management and demo projects for Machine Learning (such as a few days of logs from a PA-220).

If we want to work with medium Machine Learning projects, we would recommend to increase the resources to 4CPU and 16GB or RAM.

For larger projects, we are currently testing with 12CPU and 32GB of RAM.

Re: Hardware Requirements for Expedition

tdavidson — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 18:24:07 GMT

Are there changes that are needed to have Expedition recognize the additional CPU cores?

My dashboard still shows a single core even though I've added 4 to the vm.

Re: Hardware Requirements for Expedition

dgildelaig — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 07:40:54 GMT

Simply delete the file /home/userSpace/environtmentParamenters.php and Expedition will recalculate your current settings.

We will improve this process in the future so you do not need to worry about this process.

Re: Hardware Requirements for Expedition

Jmarx1 — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 22:05:19 GMT

What HD sizing for midrange would you think?

Re: Hardware Requirements for Expedition

alestevez — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 10:05:09 GMT

Good start for a medium-high size

4-6 VCPU

32 GB RAM

HDD it depends in the amount of logs you want to ingest.

Re: Hardware Requirements for Expedition

Jmarx1 — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 21:34:22 GMT

A little more detail on how to delete this would be great. I have tried, but the default account does not have permissions to do so.

Re: Hardware Requirements for Expedition

alestevez — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 08:39:11 GMT

sudo rm -rf /home/userSpace/environtmentParamenters.php

You are root of you system, just run the commands with sudo at the begining or run "sudo su" to become "root"

Re: Hardware Requirements for Expedition

Jmarx1 — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 16:49:07 GMT

you the man...worked great!

Re: Hardware Requirements for Expedition

senlees1 — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 17:50:46 GMT

Hello, I've increased RAM to 16GB but it's not reflected in the Expedition dashboard. I've checked the memInfo file and it does show me 16. I must be missing something.

Re: Hardware Requirements for Expedition

bkoch709 — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 21:07:12 GMT

Ok, so I've created a VM with 4 CPU cores, installed expedition on the server, and it's using 4 cores. I've upgraded my hardware, and added more cores to the VM, but expedition still is only using 4. How do I go about modifying the number of CPU cores expedition will use WITHOUT having to wipe my VM out, and reinstalling expedition?

Re: Hardware Requirements for Expedition

azuniga — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 21:11:34 GMT

@bkoch709

Please refer to the other forum post regarding this change.

https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/expedition-discussions/expedition-2-0-delete-the-home-userspace-environmentparameters/m-p/419491#M3423