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BH Appliance can be deployed on ESX 6.5 and higher versionversions. The appliance 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) and 64 GB RAM

• Inspecting higher than 2Gbps of sustained traffic will need additional vCPUs.

• Up to 5 Gbps: 48 vCPUs (with AVX2 instruction set support) and 192 GB RAM

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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Step 1: OVF Deployment

Download BlueHexagon OVF tgz package and deflate it on the client’s machine disk. Ensure that the md5 checksum provided in the package matches md5sum of vmdk file from the package. Example of the command to get md5 checksum

md5sum bh-appliance-master.configured.8-bluehexagon-pov-disk1.vmdk

Use client’s machine Chrome (or other browser that works with your version of VMWare hypervisor) on the client’s machine to connect to your ESX server HTTPS server, Import OVF into ESX using standard procedure for importing from the local OVF file explained in https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-17BEDA21-43F6-41F4-8FB2-E01D275FE9B4.html.

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Step 2: Installing credentials

The Blue Hexagon Virtual Appliance requires a unique set of credentials in order to successfully boot up. These credentials are provided by Blue Hexagon as an ISO image. Mount the ISO image provided by your Blue Hexagon representative as a CD/DVD drive.

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Step 3 : Configuring uplink and packet capture

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