Limitations and Boundaries

The following table details the Lightbits product limitations and boundaries.

Object (Max Size)	Domain	System Hard Limit	System Validation Limit
Number of volumes	Cluster	24k	10k
Number of servers*	Cluster	16	16
Size of single provisioned volume	Cluster	256 TB	256 TB
Number of snapshots overall	Cluster	24k	10k
Number of snapshots policies	Cluster	64k	333
Number of total projects	Cluster	1k	1k
Number of events	Cluster	10k	10k
Number of failure domains**	Cluster	64	16
Number of SSDs***	Server	48	24
Size of single SSD	Server	32 TB	16 TB
Number of Journaling SSD devices	Node	4	4
Number of volumes	Project	24k	10k
Number of snapshots of a given volume/volume hierarchy	Volume	1k	1k
Number of snapshot policies	Volume	8	1
Max storage size	Instance	256TiB	256TiB
Max number of clients	Client	2030. 2030x5 When Auxiliary Subsystems enabled	8K
Max number of NVMe/TCP connections (I/O queues)	Client	128	128

*The minimum number of servers per cluster is 3, although using 4 is recommended. A single server configuration is also allowed, but this setup does not support clustering. The server can be configured as either a single or dual instance.

**The minimum number of domains is 3.

***The minimum number of disks per instance is 6 with EC enabled, although using at least 8 is recommended. The minimum number of disks per instance is 4 with EC not enabled, although using at least 6 is recommended.

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