# Best Practice on Load Balancing CNodes

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**Created:** [May 5, 2026, 6:17pm UTC](https://community.vastdata.com/t/best-practice-on-load-balancing-cnodes/1965 "2026-05-05T18:17:48Z")\
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One of the powers of the VAST architecture is that you can scale performance and storage separately. If you need more performance, you can add more CNodes. This means, however, that achieving peak performance with a VAST Data cluster requires balancing traffic across all CNodes.

Read more: [Best Practice on Load Balancing CNodes](https://kb.vastdata.com/docs/best-practice-on-load-balancing-cnodes)

Let us know if you have any questions 🙂