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Required Resources

The IPM Virtual Edition, is packaged as an Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) file for use with VMware and as a compressed Hyper-V Virtual Hard Disk (VHDX) file for use with Microsoft Hyper-V Server.

The following resources are required for deploying the Virtual Edition OVA file on VMware:

  • ESXi version 6.0 or later

  • VM Hardware Version 11

  • CPUs: 8

  • Memory: 64 GB

  • Disk: 1064 GB storage, thinly provisioned, with 160 MB/sec sustained R/W throughput minimum. It is permissible to allocate more than 1064 GB of disk if required.

  • Network connectivity to the infrastructure to be monitored.

The following resources are required for deploying the Virtual Edition VHDX file on Hyper-V:

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2019 and Hyper-V version 9

  • A configured DHCP server that can be used with the above

  • CPUs: 8

  • Memory: 64 GB

  • Disk: 1064 GB storage, thinly provisioned, with 160 MB/sec sustained R/W throughput minimum. It is permissible to allocate more than 1064 GB of disk if required.

  • Network connectivity to the infrastructure to be monitored.