https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-notebooks-questions/hardware-requirements-for-notebook-server/m-p/1595684#M908 <P>Hi everyone!</P><P>My team is looking to deploy Notebook Server in a new build that we are working on.&nbsp; It will be on Enterprise 11.3, on a Linux server, and be built in Microsoft AVS.&nbsp; Documentation gives the <A href="https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/system-requirements/11.3/linux/arcgis-notebook-server-system-requirements.htm#:~:text=An%20ArcGIS%20Notebook%20Server%20node%20using%20Linux%20containers%20requires%2C%20at%20minimum%2C%20a%204%2Dcore%20processor%2C%2016%20GB%20of%20RAM%2C%20and%2075%20GB%20of%20disk%20space." target="_self">minimum hardware requirements</A> and <A href="https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/notebook/latest/install/linux/docker-and-arcgis-notebook-server.htm#:~:text=The%20Standard%20runtime%20allots%201%20CPU,6%20GB%20of%20RAM%20per%20container." target="_self">recommendations on # of cores and RAM per container</A>.&nbsp; We plan to automate our scheduled python scripts on the Notebook Server, instead of running them via Task Scheduler as we do now.&nbsp; We know we could potentially have 4 or 5 scripts/Notebooks running concurrently.&nbsp; And each Notebook will need the Advanced Runtime since we need access to arcpy.&nbsp; If we assume we could use the max of 10 Notebooks/containers at once, with Advanced Runtimes, this would be 20 cores and 60GB RAM.&nbsp; Add on the minimum of 4 cores and 16GB RAM just to run the server and this would be 24cores and 76GB RAM.&nbsp; If we wanted higher specs for the Advanced Runtime, these numbers would be even higher.</P><P>I'm hoping to hear from others with Notebook server and what their specs are.&nbsp; We don't want to underpower or overpower the server.&nbsp;&nbsp;<SPAN>Are the above calculations "overkill" or not enough?&nbsp; Does anyone have any suggestions on a "butter zone" of specs (cores, RAM, disk space) for a Notebook Server that would use all Advanced Runtimes?&nbsp;&nbsp;</SPAN></P><P>Thanks for any recommendations!</P> Thu, 17 Jul 2025 13:22:45 GMT Mark_Prettyman 2025-07-17T13:22:45Z https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-notebooks-questions/hardware-requirements-for-notebook-server/m-p/1595684#M908 <P>Hi everyone!</P><P>My team is looking to deploy Notebook Server in a new build that we are working on.&nbsp; It will be on Enterprise 11.3, on a Linux server, and be built in Microsoft AVS.&nbsp; Documentation gives the <A href="https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/system-requirements/11.3/linux/arcgis-notebook-server-system-requirements.htm#:~:text=An%20ArcGIS%20Notebook%20Server%20node%20using%20Linux%20containers%20requires%2C%20at%20minimum%2C%20a%204%2Dcore%20processor%2C%2016%20GB%20of%20RAM%2C%20and%2075%20GB%20of%20disk%20space." target="_self">minimum hardware requirements</A> and <A href="https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/notebook/latest/install/linux/docker-and-arcgis-notebook-server.htm#:~:text=The%20Standard%20runtime%20allots%201%20CPU,6%20GB%20of%20RAM%20per%20container." target="_self">recommendations on # of cores and RAM per container</A>.&nbsp; We plan to automate our scheduled python scripts on the Notebook Server, instead of running them via Task Scheduler as we do now.&nbsp; We know we could potentially have 4 or 5 scripts/Notebooks running concurrently.&nbsp; And each Notebook will need the Advanced Runtime since we need access to arcpy.&nbsp; If we assume we could use the max of 10 Notebooks/containers at once, with Advanced Runtimes, this would be 20 cores and 60GB RAM.&nbsp; Add on the minimum of 4 cores and 16GB RAM just to run the server and this would be 24cores and 76GB RAM.&nbsp; If we wanted higher specs for the Advanced Runtime, these numbers would be even higher.</P><P>I'm hoping to hear from others with Notebook server and what their specs are.&nbsp; We don't want to underpower or overpower the server.&nbsp;&nbsp;<SPAN>Are the above calculations "overkill" or not enough?&nbsp; Does anyone have any suggestions on a "butter zone" of specs (cores, RAM, disk space) for a Notebook Server that would use all Advanced Runtimes?&nbsp;&nbsp;</SPAN></P><P>Thanks for any recommendations!</P> Thu, 17 Jul 2025 13:22:45 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-notebooks-questions/hardware-requirements-for-notebook-server/m-p/1595684#M908 Mark_Prettyman 2025-07-17T13:22:45Z