# Medium

* Network: minimum 10Gb/s
* Number of sites: 1
* Number of **Storware Backup & Recovery** installations: 1 server and (min.) 1 node
* min. 4 vCPU and 8 GB RAM
* Number of backup threads: 6
* Backup window: 8 hours
* Data to back up: up to 25 TB
* staging space: your\_largest\_VM \* backup threads - per node
* Number of parallel backup threads: depending on the number of virtual machines (maximum 10 per node)

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