Cataloging best practices

To increase cataloging performance, follow the recommendations below.

Installation

We recommend that you install a catalog service and a storage node on separate machines. Otherwise, these components will compete for CPU and RAM resources.

If several storage nodes are registered on the management server, one catalog service is sufficient unless the indexing or search performance degrades. For example, if you notice that cataloging is working 24/7 (meaning that there are no pauses between cataloging activities), install one more catalog service on a separate machine. Then, remove some of the managed locations and recreate them with the new catalog service. The backups stored in these locations will be kept intact.

System requirements

Parameter	Minimum value	Recommended value
Number of CPU cores	2	4 and more
RAM	8 GB	16 GB and more
Hard disk	7200 rpm HDD	SSD
Network connection between the machine with the storage node and the machine with the catalog service	100 Mbps	1 Gbps