# Hardware requirements for control plane vs. data plane

**URL:** <https://discuss.konghq.com/t/hardware-requirements-for-control-plane-vs-data-plane/9368>\
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**Created:** [November 15, 2021, 6:44pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/hardware-requirements-for-control-plane-vs-data-plane/9368 "2021-11-15T18:44:41Z")\
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The sizing guidelines do not seem to make a distinction between control plane and data plane nodes. Does a control plane node that is not serving client requests have the same hardware requirements as a data plane node?

> **[Resource Sizing Guidelines - Kong Gateway | Kong Docs](https://docs.konghq.com/gateway/2.6.x/plan-and-deploy/sizing-guidelines/)**
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> Documentation for Kong, the Cloud Connectivity Company for APIs and Microservices.