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Recommended system configurations

Depending on the size of your infrastructure, namely number of client machines that will be managed by ESET PROTECT Virtual Appliance, take into account recommended and minimal virtual machine configuration.

The default ESET PROTECT Virtual Appliance configuration settings:

CPU cores

6

RAM

8 GB

Disk

128 GB


important

The ESET PROTECT Virtual Appliance runs on Rocky Linux 9, which requires a CPU that supports x86-64-v2. You can verify your CPU compatibility with these steps.

The following sizing applies to ESET PROTECT Server running on a Virtual Appliance:

Number of clients

Up to 1,000

1,000–5,000

Number of CPU cores

4

8

RAM size

4 GB

8 GB

Disk IOPS*

500

1,000

Agent connection interval (during deployment phase)

60 seconds

5 minutes

Agent connection interval (after deployment, during standard usage)

10 minutes

10 minutes

Other recommendations

Thick provisioned disk, manually change configuration to increase memory size for MySQL.

Proportionally increase available resources for your ESET PROTECT VA to prevent performance issues.

* IOPS (total I/O operations per second)—We recommend having approximately 0.2 IOPS per connected client, but no less than 500.


important

If you are planning to have more than 5,000 managed clients, we highly recommend that you install ESET PROTECT Server on a physical machine running Microsoft Windows Server with Microsoft SQL Server.