Technical Requirements

Minimum Requirements [on-premise]

1Gb Virtual Sensor Specifications

• Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS ("Jammy Jellyfish") or Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS ("Noble") or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.x or Rocky Linux 9.x:

  • Support for CIS-hardened Ubuntu Server 24.04 ("Noble") machines is not yet available

  • Support for Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS ("Focal Fossa") was dropped with the 2.0.0 Release

  • Please download the Ubuntu ISO image from: https://releases.ubuntu.com/jammy/

• 32 vCPUs

• 128GB RAM (essential for analysis at 1Gbps networks)

• Two NICs (One management interface; One capture interface)

• 3.2 TB Free Disc Space (SSD)*:

  • 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

  • *Disc space recommendation is assuming default retention settings and an average file size is assumed to be in the single digit MB range. If very large files are sent at large quantities, total disc size has to be much larger or retention settings more strict.

• Internet access is required during the installation & upgrade process.

Example Hardware Setup

• CPU: Intel Xeon 6 Performance 6730P 2.5G, 32C/64T, 24GT/s, 330M Cache, Turbo, (250W) DDR5-6400, OEM XL

• RAM: 128 GB (4 × 32 GB DDR5-6400 ECC RDIMM)

• Storage: 3.2TB Useable RAID10 4x 1.6TB Data Center NVMe Mixed Use AG Drive U2 with carrier

• Power Supply: Dual, Fully Redundant(1+1), Hot-Plug MHS Power Supply,800W MM (100-240Vac]

Note: this is an example system that would allow processing traffic at 1Gbps with default retention periods.