Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack (KATA) Platform

Hardware requirements for the Central Node server with the event chain scanning enabled

August 12, 2024

ID 279499

The hardware requirements for the Central Node server with the event chain scanning feature enabled and functionality being used are listed in the table below.

Hardware requirements for the server with the Central Node component when using KEDR functionality

Maximum number of hosts with the Endpoint Agent component

Minimum RAM (GB)

Minimum number of logical cores at 3 GHz

First disk subsystem (RAID 1 or RAID 10)

Second disk subsystem (RAID 10)

ROPS (read operations per second)

WOPS (write operations per second)

Disk array size (TB)

The number of disks in the array

ROPS (read operations per second)

WOPS (write operations per second)

Disk array size (TB)

1000

64

8

100

1000

1

4

300

300

Up to 7.2 TB

3000

80

12

100

1000

1

4

700

750

5000

96

16

100

1000

1

4

1000

900

10,000

144

24

100

1000

1

4

2000

1200

15,000

192

36

100

1000

1

4

2000

1600

Hardware requirements for the server with the Central Node component when using KATA and KEDR functionality

Maximum number of hosts with the Endpoint Agent component

Maximum number of email messages per second

Maximum volume of traffic from SPAN ports on the server with the Central Node component

Maximum volume of traffic from SPAN ports on servers with the Sensor component (Mbps)

Minimum RAM (GB)

Minimum number of logical cores at 3 GHz

First disk subsystem (RAID 1 or RAID 10)

Second disk subsystem (RAID 10)

ROPS (read operations per second)

WOPS (write operations per second)

Disk array size (TB)

The number of disks in the array

ROPS (read operations per second)

WOPS (write operations per second)

1000

1

200

Not processed

96

16

100

1000

1.9

4

300

300

2000

2

500

Not processed

128

28

100

1000

2

4

500

500

5000

1

1000

Not processed

160

40

100

1000

2

4

1000

600

10,000

2

1000

Not processed

224

48

100

1000

2

4

2000

800

5000

5

Not processed

2000

160

32

100

1000

1.9

4

1000

600

10,000

20

Not processed

4000

224

64

100

1000

1.9

4

2000

800

15,000

20

Not processed

4000

288

72

100

1000

1.9

4

2000

800

15,000

20

Not processed

7000

320

104

100

1000

1.9

4

2000

800

15,000

20

Not processed

10,000

320

144

100

1000

1.9

4

2000

800

If you want to use the event chain scanning functionality, the second disk subsystem on the Central Node server must use a solid-state drive (SSD) if at least one of the following conditions is true:

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