docs: add qualifier for hardware requirements (#4698)

* docs: add qualifier for hardware requirements * Apply suggestions from code review Co-authored-by: caroldelwing <[email protected]> --------- Co-authored-by: Lenny Chen <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: caroldelwing <[email protected]>
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diff --git a/docs/docs-content/clusters/edge/hardware-requirements.md b/docs/docs-content/clusters/edge/hardware-requirements.md
@@ -23,6 +23,16 @@ Spectro Cloud sales at [email protected].
 
 All Edge hosts must meet the following minimum hardware requirements.
 
+:::info
+
+The requirements listed on this page apply to Edge hosts deployed in appliance mode only. To learn more about different
+deployment modes, refer to [Deployment Modes](../../deployment-modes/deployment-modes.md).
+
+To learn about the requirements for Edge hosts deployed in agent mode, refer to
+[Agent Mode Hardware Requirements](../../deployment-modes/agent-mode/architecture.md#minimum-device-requirements).
+
+:::
+
 ### AMD64 Architecture Devices
 
 | Component | Requirement                                                                                                                                               |

diff --git a/docs/docs-content/deployment-modes/agent-mode/architecture.md b/docs/docs-content/deployment-modes/agent-mode/architecture.md
@@ -32,10 +32,12 @@ The following are architectural highlights of clusters deployed using agent mode
 
 ## Minimum Device Requirements
 
-Agent mode deployments support both AMD64 and ARM64 architectures.
-
-| Component | Requirement                                                                                                                                               |
-| --------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| CPU Core  | Minimum two cores.                                                                                                                                        |
-| Memory    | Minimum 8 GB.                                                                                                                                             |
-| Storage   | Main drive requires a minimum of 100 GB storage to accommodate the Operating System (OS), Kubernetes, and workloads. The main drive must be an SSD drive. |
+Agent mode deployments support both AMD64 and ARM64 architectures. The numbers presented in this section are the bare
+minimum required for the operating system, Palette agent, and lightweight Kubernetes distributions only and do not
+account for any application workloads. The actual requirement for your hardware depends on your workload.
+
+| Component | Requirement                                                                                                                                              |
+| --------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| CPU Core  | Minimum four cores.                                                                                                                                      |
+| Memory    | Minimum four GB.                                                                                                                                         |
+| Storage   | Main drive requires a minimum of 32 GB storage to accommodate the Operating System (OS), Kubernetes, and workloads. The main drive must be an SSD drive. |