ThoughtSpot can be deployed using several different GCP instance types.

ThoughtSpot can be deployed in your GCP environment by deploying compute (VM) instances in your VPC as well as an underlying persistent storage infrastructure. Currently two configuration modes are supported by ThoughtSpot:

• Mode 1: Compute VMs + SSD Persistent Disk storage-only
• Mode 2: Compute VMs + SSD Persistent Disk and Google Cloud Storage (GCS).

For more information about Persistent Storage, see Zonal Persistent SSD disks in Google’s Cloud documentation.

For more information about Google Cloud Storage, see Cloud Storage Buckets in Google’s Cloud documentation.

All GCP VMs (nodes) in a ThoughtSpot cluster must be in the same zone (and, therefore, also in the same region). ThoughtSpot does not support deploying VMs (nodes) of the same cluster across different zones. For more information, see Regions and Zones in Google’s Cloud documentation.

ThoughtSpot GCP instance types

When choosing an instance type, ensure that it uses Intel CPUs.

VMs with Persistent Disk-only storage

Per VM user data capacity	Instance type	CPU/RAM	Recommended per-VM Zonal Persistent SSD Disk volume	Required boot volume capacity
208 GB	n1-highmem-64	64/416	2x 1 TB	200 GB for each node
312 GB	n1-highmem-96	96/624	2x 1.5 TB	200 GB for each node
100 GB	n1-highmem-32	32/208	2X 400 GB	200 GB for each node
20 GB	n1-highmem-16	16/122	2X 400 GB	200 GB for each node
180 GB	n1-standard-96	96/330	2X 1 TB	200 GB for each node

VMs with Persistent Disk and Google Cloud storage

Per VM user data capacity	Instance type	CPU/RAM	Recommended per-VM Zonal Persistent SSD Disk volume	Required boot volume capacity
208 GB	n1-highmem-64	64/416	1X 500 GB	200 GB for each node
312 GB	n1-highmem-96	96/624	1X 500 GB	200 GB for each node
100 GB	n1-highmem-32	32/208	1X 500 GB	200 GB for each node
20 GB	n1-highmem-16	16/122	1X 500 GB	200 GB for each node
180 GB	n1-standard-96	96/330	1X 500 GB	200 GB for each node