BH Appliance Deployment

Step 1: OVF Deployment

Start Deploy

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Step 2: Configuring uplink and packet capture

Create vSwitch for capturing packets

Create portgroup for capturing packets

Add BH Appliance vNIC to capture portgroup

Once mirroring is complete, login to the product portal at https://gobluehexagon.ai with the credentials emailed to you. Please refer to our UI guide on how to interact with results from the appliance in the console.

BH Appliance Deployment

BH Appliance can be deployed on ESX 6.5 and higher version. The appliance needs a minimum of 32GB of RAM and a minimum of 24 vCPUs. 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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