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Please contact [https://allegro-packets.com/en/contact Allegro] or your reseller to retrieve the current Allegro Virtual Edition installation zip archive. | Please contact [https://allegro-packets.com/en/contact Allegro] or your reseller to retrieve the current Allegro Virtual Edition installation zip archive. | ||
== Installation == | |||
=== Zip file extraction === | |||
Please extract the the zip archive. It should contain the 3 files “allegro-multimeter.ovf”, “allegro-multimeter.vmdk” and “allegro-multimeter-virtualbox.ovf”. | Please extract the the zip archive. It should contain the 3 files “allegro-multimeter.ovf”, “allegro-multimeter.vmdk” and “allegro-multimeter-virtualbox.ovf”. | ||
=== OVF deployment to VMWare ESXi === | |||
Please log in to VMWare ESXi. | |||
Revision as of 12:06, 14 April 2020
This guide describes how the Allegro Network Multimeter Virtual Edition can be set up with VMWare ESXI. The Allegro Virtual Edition is designed for 2 use cases. It can analyze Pcap captures or Packet Ring Buffers of unlimited size for forensic investigation or it can analyse live traffic from virtual machines by a virtual mirror port or ERSPAN.
General
DISCLAIMER
Be aware that an activated ring buffer can degrade the IO performance for all VMs. It is recommended to use one or many dedicated HDD or SSD for the Ring buffer to prevent side effects to other VMs.
System Requirements
This guide requires a licensed VMWare ESXi 6.7.0 or newer.
The System requirement of the virtual machine is
- x86 64-Bit Intel/AMD CPU with SSE4.2 support ( since 2011 )
- 4 CPU-Cores
- at least 2GB RAM for the In-Memory-DB, the more the better
- 20GB free Disk space
Virtual Machine Image
Please contact Allegro or your reseller to retrieve the current Allegro Virtual Edition installation zip archive.
Installation
Zip file extraction
Please extract the the zip archive. It should contain the 3 files “allegro-multimeter.ovf”, “allegro-multimeter.vmdk” and “allegro-multimeter-virtualbox.ovf”.
OVF deployment to VMWare ESXi
Please log in to VMWare ESXi.