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1 TB for What?

Jake_Jake_Jake
7 - Meteor

We are evaluating Alteryx server and see that it recommends 1 TB of storage. That seems a bit high especially because we will be storing all of our data out to our SQL Server instance.

 

What am I missing? Why does it need a whole terabyte of storage?

1 REPLY 1
Samuel_To
10 - Fireball

Hi @Jake_Jake_Jake,

 

The Alteryx engine will dynamically allocate memory and even overflow to disk space as virtual memory as necessary.

 

https://help.alteryx.com/current/TempFiles.htm

 

https://community.alteryx.com/t5/Alteryx-Designer-Discussions/Sizing-workflow-memory-usage/td-p/1450...

 

Hope it help.

 

Best Regards,

Samuel