Environment Requirements

Before deploying a Doris cluster, prepare the hardware and software environments to facilitate subsequent installation operations.

The cluster environment consists of one FE server and three BE servers. Figure 1 shows the networking diagram.

Figure 1 Networking diagram

Table 1 lists the hardware requirements.

**Table 1** Hardware requirements
Module	CPU	Memory	Drive	Network	Number of Instances (Minimum Requirement)
Frontend	16 cores or more	64 GB or higher	SSD/RAID/NVMe drive: 100 GB or higher	10GE NIC	1
Backend	16 cores or more	64 GB or higher	SSD/SATA/NVMe drive: 100 GB or higher	10GE NIC	3

Table 2 lists the OS and software requirements.

Table 3 lists the software package required for Doris instruction optimization and how to obtain it.

**Table 3** Obtaining software packages
Software Package	Description	How to Obtain
apache-doris-2.1.2-bin-arm64.tar.gz	Doris 2.1.2 installation package for the Arm architecture	Link

Parent topic: Software Deployment