Reference: Tanium Appliance specifications

This page lists deployment sizing specifications for the physical Tanium Appliance, cloud-based Tanium Appliance, and the virtual Tanium Appliance.

Any modification to the Licensed Software by Customer or any third-party or failure by Customer to implement any Enhancements to the Licensed Software may void Tanium’s obligation to provide Support Services and Tanium’s warranties.

Physical Tanium Appliance specifications

Download the Tanium Infrastructure product brief for specifications of the physical Tanium Appliance.

Cloud-based Tanium Appliance and virtual Tanium Appliance specifications

cloud-based Tanium Appliance deployment

Tanium provides cloud-based Tanium Appliance images for the following cloud providers:

  • AWS (x86-64 processors)
  • AWS GovCloud
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • IBM Cloud
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Microsoft Azure GovCloud

virtual Tanium Appliance deployment

Tanium provides virtual Tanium Appliance images for the following hypervisors:

Hypervisor Virtual image format
KVM QCOW2
VMware ESXi OVA
Microsoft Hyper-V VHD

Each virtual Tanium Appliance image contains the following default settings:

  • Unified EFI (UEFI)
  • 16GB RAM
  • 4 CPU cores
  • 1 NIC
  • 500GB disk

Before you start the virtual appliance for the first time, you might need to use the VM settings utility on the hypervisor to make changes to support the recommended specifications for your deployment size.

Recommended resources for cloud-based Tanium Appliances and virtual Tanium Appliances

The following specifications include a range for a given number of endpoints, depending on modules installed, usage, and other factors unique to each environment. It is reasonable to start at the low end of each range and increase resources as needed. Customers are responsible for ensuring adequate resource allocation for their Tanium instances.

Virtual Tanium Appliances support only up to 35,000 endpoints. Resource specification for greater numbers of endpoints apply only to cloud-based Tanium Appliances.

  • Tanium Server pairs (for example, TS1 and TS2 in an Appliance Array) must have matching memory configurations.

  • The disk space listed for the Tanium Server and Zone Server is the minimum space required for TanOS and the Tanium Core Platform server software. If you use Tanium™ Patch, the server needs an additional 500 GB of disk space to store and manage patches. If you use Tanium™ Deploy, the server needs additional disk space greater than or equal to twice the Deploy software library storage.

To ensure that the response times of Tanium Core Platform servers do not adversely affect the user experience, the servers must be able to sustain I/O loads of at least 30 MBps at 2,500 IOPS and maintain disk utilization below 15 percent under such workloads. Sustaining 2,500 IOPS ensures that disk latency stays below 15 milliseconds (ms) on the drive where the servers and modules are stored.

Up to 10,000 endpoints

Tanium Server Tanium Module Server Tanium Zone Server Tanium Cloud Access Point
CPU cores 8–16 8–16 8–16 8
RAM 32–96 GB 32–96 GB 16–96 GB 16 GB
Disk Space 400 GB – 2 TB 200 GB – 2 TB 200 GB – 500 GB 500 GB

10,001 to 35,000 endpoints

Tanium Server Tanium Module Server Tanium Zone Server Tanium Cloud Access Point
CPU cores 8–16 8–16 8–16 not supported
RAM 32–96 GB 32–96 GB 16–96 GB
Disk Space 400 GB – 2 TB 200 GB – 2 TB 200 GB – 500 GB

35,001 to 50,000 endpoints (cloud-based Tanium Appliances only)

Tanium Server Tanium Module Server Tanium Zone Server Tanium Cloud Access Point
CPU cores 8–16 8–16 8–16 not supported
RAM 32–96 GB 32–96 GB 16–96 GB
Disk Space 400 GB – 2 TB 200 GB – 2 TB 200 GB – 500 GB

50,001 to 200,000 endpoints (cloud-based Tanium Appliances only)

Tanium Server Tanium Module Server Tanium Zone Server Tanium Cloud Access Point
CPU cores 16–32 8–16 16–32 not supported
RAM 128–384 GB 32–96 GB 128–384 GB
Disk Space 400 GB – 2 TB 200 GB – 4 TB 200 GB – 500 GB

200,001 to 500,000 endpoints (cloud-based Tanium Appliances only)

Tanium Server Tanium Module Server Tanium Zone Server Tanium Cloud Access Point
CPU cores 16–42 16–32 16–42 not supported
RAM 256–640 GB 128–384 GB 256–640 GB
Disk Space 400 GB – 2 TB 200 GB – 4 TB 200 GB – 500 GB

Over 500,000 endpoints (cloud-based Tanium Appliances only)

Tanium Server Tanium Module Server Tanium Zone Server Tanium Cloud Access Point
CPU cores 32–64 16–32 32–64 not supported
RAM 512–1024 GB 128–384 GB 512–1024 GB
Disk Space 400 GB – 2 TB 200 GB – 4 TB 200 GB – 500 GB