Installation and operation of the Kaspersky Security solution is supported on the following virtualization platforms:
One of the following hypervisors must be installed in the virtual infrastructure to support installation and operation of the Kaspersky Security solution.
The solution can be installed and run on Microsoft Windows Server (Hyper-V) hypervisors that are part of a hypervisor cluster managed by the Windows Failover Clustering service. Cluster Shared Volumes technology must be enabled on cluster nodes.
To deploy SVMs on Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V hypervisors, you can use a Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (referred to as Microsoft SCVMM) of one of the following versions:
A Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 LTSR hypervisor must be installed in the virtual infrastructure to support installation and operation of the Kaspersky Security solution.
One of the following hypervisors must be installed in the virtual infrastructure to support installation and operation of the Kaspersky Security solution.
A VMware vCenter Server® 8.0 or 7.0 virtual infrastructure administration server with all available updates must be installed in virtual infrastructure. There is support for the installation and operation of the solution in an infrastructure managed by standalone VMware vCenter servers and by a group of VMware vCenter servers running in Linked mode.
If you are using VMware NSX Manager™ in an infrastructure running the VMware vSphere platform, Kaspersky Security can assign security tags to the protected virtual machines. Kaspersky Security supports compatibility with one of the following types of VMware NSX Manager:
To deploy SVMs on VMware ESXi hypervisors, you can use a Microsoft SCVMM virtual infrastructure administration server of one of the following versions:
A KVM hypervisor based on one of the following operating systems must be installed in the virtual infrastructure to support installation and operation of the Kaspersky Security solution.
To deploy an SVM on KVM hypervisors running the CentOS operating system, you must delete or comment out the "Defaults requiretty" line in the /etc/sudoers configuration file of the hypervisor’s operating system.
A Proxmox VE 8 hypervisor must be installed in the virtual infrastructure to support installation and operation of the Kaspersky Security solution.
Only KVM-based Proxmox VE is supported. Operation of the solution on a Proxmox VE hypervisor using LXC (Linux Containers) is not supported.
An R-Virtualization 7.0.13 hypervisor must be installed in the virtual infrastructure to support installation and operation of the Kaspersky Security solution.
A Skala-R Management 1.97 or 1.98 virtual infrastructure administration server must be installed in the virtual infrastructure to support deployment and operation of an SVM on R-Virtualization hypervisors.
A HUAWEI FusionCompute CNA 8.0 or later hypervisor must be installed in the virtual infrastructure to support installation and operation of the Kaspersky Security solution.
HUAWEI FusionCompute VRM 8.0 and later virtual infrastructure administration server must be installed in the virtual infrastructure to support deployment and operation of an SVM on HUAWEI FusionCompute CNA hypervisors.
A Nutanix AHV 6.5.1.5 hypervisor must be installed in the virtual infrastructure to support installation and operation of the Kaspersky Security solution.
A Nutanix Prism 6.5.1.5 virtual infrastructure administration server must be installed in the virtual infrastructure to support deployment and operation of an SVM on Nutanix AHV hypervisors.
A VeiL Node 5.1.2 hypervisor must be installed in the virtual infrastructure to support installation and operation of the Kaspersky Security solution.
There are some limitations on the installation and operation of the solution in a virtual infrastructure running on the Enterprise Cloud Platform VeiL platform. Please refer to the Knowledge Base for details.
A SharxBase 5.10.x hypervisor must be installed in the virtual infrastructure to support installation and operation of the Kaspersky Security solution.
There are some limitations on the installation and operation of the solution in a SharxBase virtual infrastructure. Please refer to the Knowledge Base for details.
For the Kaspersky Security solution to install and run, TIONIX Cloud Platform 2.9 or 3.0 must be installed.
The following microservices must be installed as part of the TIONIX Cloud Platform:
A KVM hypervisor must be installed in the virtual infrastructure.
For the Kaspersky Security solution to install and run, one of the following OpenStack platform releases must be installed: Havana, Stein, Newton, Victoria, Zed, or Antelope.
The following microservices must be installed as part of the OpenStack platform:
A KVM hypervisor must be installed in the virtual infrastructure.
The ALT Virtualization Server version 10.0 platform is required for installation and operation of the Kaspersky Security solution.
A basic hypervisor of the ALT Virtualization Server 10.0 platform (KVM-based hypervisor) must be installed as part of the platform.
Brest Virtualization Software Platform version 2.9 or 3.2 is required for installation and operation of the Kaspersky Security solution.
A KVM hypervisor must be installed in the virtual infrastructure.
There are some limitations on the installation and operation of the solution in a virtual infrastructure running on the Brest Virtualization Software Platform. Please refer to the Knowledge Base for details.
A zVirt Node 3.x or 4.x hypervisor must be installed in the virtual infrastructure to support installation and operation of the Kaspersky Security solution.
There are some limitations on the installation and operation of the solution in a virtual infrastructure running the zVirt Virtualization Environment. Please refer to the Knowledge Base for details.
ROSA Virtualization Environment Management System Platform 2.1 is required for installation and operation of the Kaspersky Security solution.
A KVM hypervisor must be installed in the virtual infrastructure.
There are some limitations on the installation and operation of the solution in a virtual infrastructure running on the ROSA Virtualization Environment Management System Platform. Please refer to the Knowledge Base for details.
You can remove the limitations related to use of the Integration Server in a virtual infrastructure running on the ROSA Virtualization Environment Management System Platform. If you want Light Agents to use the extended SVM discovery functionality (use of the Integration Server and the advanced SVM selection algorithm), you can manually add infrastructure information to the Integration Server. Please refer to the Knowledge Base for details.
RED Virtualization platform 7.3 is required for installation and operation of the Kaspersky Security solution.
A KVM hypervisor must be installed in the virtual infrastructure.
There are some limitations when installing and operating the solution in a virtual infrastructure running the RED Virtualization platform. Please refer to the Knowledge Base for details.
To install and run the Kaspersky Security solution, Astra Linux Special Edition RUSB.10015-01 (regular update 1.7) must be installed along with Update 2022-1221SE17MD (operational update 1.7.3.UU.1).
A KVM hypervisor must be installed in the virtual infrastructure.
SpaceVM Cloud Platform 6.2 is required to install and run Kaspersky Security in a virtual infrastructure.
There are some limitations on the installation and operation of the solution in a virtual infrastructure on the SpaceVM Cloud platform. Please refer to the Knowledge Base for details.
Basis.DynamiX Cloud Platform 3.8.5 is required to install and run Kaspersky Security in a virtual infrastructure.
There are some limitations on the installation and operation of the solution in a virtual infrastructure on the Basis.DynamiX Cloud platform. Please refer to the Knowledge Base for details.
VMManager Infrastructure 2023.11.1-1 is required for installation and operation of the Kaspersky Security solution.
A KVM hypervisor must be installed in the virtual infrastructure.
There are some limitations when installing and operating the solution in a virtual infrastructure running VMManager Infrastructure. Please refer to the Knowledge Base for details.