# Opennebula Physical or Virtual
**URL:** https://forum.opennebula.io/t/opennebula-physical-or-virtual/1824
**Category:** Product Support
**Created:** [February 18, 2016, 1:28am UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/opennebula-physical-or-virtual/1824 "2016-02-18T01:28:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@debian112](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/debian112)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2016, 1:28am UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/opennebula-physical-or-virtual/1824/1 "2016-02-18T01:28:02Z")
I am trying to decide if we should run opennebula on physical servers or virtual. What is everyone doing?
Also what is the hardware requirements?
We do plan to separate the opennebula components to different VMs.
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### Author:  [@anandharaj](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/anandharaj)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2016, 6:14am UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/opennebula-physical-or-virtual/1824/2 "2016-02-19T06:14:41Z")
Im running the ONE in VM with 4VCPU and 16GB Memory. So far no issues.
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### Author:  [@tinova](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/tinova)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2016, 2:53pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/opennebula-physical-or-virtual/1824/3 "2016-02-22T14:53:22Z")
In Table 2 of the Open Cloud Reference Architecture document you can find recommendations for the front-end capacity:
[https://support.opennebula.pro/hc/en-us/articles/204210319](https://support.opennebula.pro/hc/en-us/articles/204210319)
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### Author:  [@debian112](https://forum.opennebula.io/u/debian112)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2016, 12:20pm UTC](https://forum.opennebula.io/t/opennebula-physical-or-virtual/1824/4 "2016-02-24T12:20:35Z")
Excellent! Thank you for your help