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BH Appliance Deployment
BH Appliance can be deployed on ESX 6.5 and higher versionversions. The appliance needs a minimum of 32GB 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) 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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In the example shown below, we are creating a new vSwitch called capture_vSwitch with uplink port as vmnic1. “Accept” the promiscuous mode option in security settings.
Create portgroup for capturing packets
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Once mirroring is complete, the results from the appliance are available in the UI. Please 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.
Custom Network Settings
In order to customize the setting The Blue Hexagon VM appliance by default uses the DHCP for the Management interface. If you need to change the network settings on the VM to use a static IP. Navigate to http://<management_interface_ip> and make the necessary changes as shown below
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