Calculations for the Central Node component deployed on the KVM and VMware ESXi virtualization platforms
To deploy the application on the KVM virtual platform, you need to install the KVM hypervisor based on the Debian GNU/Linux 12 operating system using QEMU 8.0.2.
You can only connect a Sandbox component deployed outside the KVM virtualization platform on a physical server or on another supported virtualization platform.
For each Central Node server deployed in a virtual infrastructure, a separate network interface must be used for receiving mirrored SPAN traffic.
Support of KVM virtualizations used in cloud solutions is not guaranteed.
In the virtual machine settings, the host value must be set for the type parameter in the CPU settings and the VMware vmxnet3 value for the model parameter in the network adapter settings.
VMware ESXi:
Only the non-high-availability version of the application can be installed.
Only Embedded Sensor can be used.
For each Central Node server deployed in a virtual infrastructure, a separate network interface must be used for receiving mirrored SPAN traffic.
The hardware requirements for the Central Node server depending on the functionality being used are listed in the table below.
Hardware requirements of the Central Node server when using KATA functionality
Maximum number of email messages per minute
Maximum volume of traffic from SPAN ports on the server with the Central Node component (Mbps)
Minimum number of logical cores at 3 GHz
Minimum RAM (GB)
1
20
6
31*/32
5
50
6
31/32
30
100
12
31/40
30
100
12
31/46
* The value before the slash represents the amount of RAM required to install the Central Node component. After installation, the amount of RAM must be brought up to the value after the slash.