This section provides guidance around recommended hardware configurations in production AIStor Server deployments. Hardware recommendations The recommendations below reflect our experience with assisting enterprise customers in deploying on a variety of IT infrastructures while maintaining the desired SLA/SLO. Use the recommended configurations below as a guideline for the physical or virtual hosts supporting the AIStor Server deployment. Use the Erasure Code Calculator to provide baseline guidance for the number of hosts and drives necessary to meet your storage and availability requirements.