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BH Appliance can be deployed on ESX 6.5 and higher version. The appliance needs a minimum of 64GB of RAM, and a minimum of 24 vCPUs has the following resource requirements:
Up to 500 Mbps of sustained traffic inspection: 16 vCPUs (with AVX2 instruction set support) and 32 GB RAM
Up to 2 Gbps of sustained traffic inspection: 24 vCPUs (with AVX2 instruction set support
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) and 64 GB RAM
Inspecting higher than 2Gbps of sustained traffic will need additional vCPUs.
It is recommended to create a separate vSwitch for the external spanned traffic to the VM. A typical deployment scenario would look like the figure below:
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