Virtual Machine Setup - intelligent002/kafka-backup-offline GitHub Wiki

resources map

Resource Planning

  • CPU, RAM, Disk — plan generously
  • Avoid RAID-5; prefer SSD or RAID-10
  • Use fixed-size disk allocations like eagerzeroedthick (VMware) or Fixed Size (Hyper-V)

Cluster Roles

Role Nodes Description
Management kafka-node-0 GUI, backup/restore, certs
Controller kafka-node-1/2/3 Metadata and elections
Broker kafka-node-4/5/6 Data storage and client requests
Connect kafka-node-7/8/9 Source/sink plugins and data flows

Use NFS mounts or additional drives for performance.