Technical Requirements

Minimum Requirements (on premise)

  • Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS ("Focal Fossa"):

  • 8 vCPUs (Preferably 16 vCPUs)

  • 16 GB RAM (Preferably 32GB)

  • 32 GB Free Disk Space (SSD): Filescan requires 25 GB on the first installation (subsequent upgrades will potentially consume more disk space)

    • Please note that the Ubuntu server installer will configure the main disk as an LVM group by default (2 partitions mirroring each other). For example, on a 100 GB disk you will get approx. 50 GB usable storage. This provides redundancy and better data safety, so please consider doubling your disk size. Alternatively, you can uncheck the "Set up this disk as an LVM group" option during the Ubuntu installation, see: https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/install/storage

Note: More than 25000 scans/day requires a custom multi-server setup and needs to be scoped out with the engineering team.

Due to the low resource requirements and cloud-native capability, OPSWAT Filescan does not require nested VMs and can be deployed and operate with its proprietary virtualization technology directly on the host system.

Example Hardware Setup

  • Intel Xeon-E 2136 (12M Cache, 3.30 GHz)

  • RAM 32GB DDR4 ECC 2666 MHz

  • 2x SSD NVMe 256GB RAID

Note: this is an example system that would allow processing 50K files/day with a retention period of 10 days.

Throughput / Hardware Requirements

The following table lists explanatory system specs with a retention period of 10 days:

Scans Per Day

Required System CPUs

Required System RAM

Required Storage per Retention Period

1000

4

4 GB

256 GB

2500

4

4 GB

256 GB

5000

4

4 GB

256 GB

10000

8

8 GB

256 GB

25000

16

16 GB

256 GB

50000

28

28 GB

512 GB

Minimum Cloud Requirements (AWS)

  • 5000 scans/day: t3a.2xlarge

  • 10000 scans/day: c4.4xlarge

  • 25000 scans/day: c4.8xlarge