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    System Deployment - Deploying the Virtual Appliance

    • Updated on 22 Oct 2023
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    Article Summary

    The Axonius solution is installed as a virtual appliance in VMware ESXi, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure or GCP.

    Sizing Recommendations

    Count of Unique Assets or Adapters (whichever comes first)RAMCPU CoresDiskDisk IOPSAdditional Requirements
    Minimum Requirements32 GB8 virtual cores500 GBAny SSDNone
    > 25k assets and / or > 5 adapters64 GB16 virtual cores500 GBAny SSDNone
    >100k but <500k assets and/or >10 but <20 adapters128 GB16 virtual cores1000 GBMinimum 10,000 IOPS

    Recommended: 10 IOPS per GB, with 10,000 IOPS minimum    		Additional Node required for specific adapters*
    > 500k assets and / or > 20 adapters256 GB32 virtual cores1500 GBMinimum 15,000 IOPS

    Recommended: 10 IOPS per GB, with 15,000 IOPS minimum IOPS    		Additional Node required for specific adapters*
    > 1,000k assets and / or > 20 adaptersMulti tiered architecture. Please contact AxoniusMulti tiered architecture. Please contact AxoniusMulti tiered architecture. Please contact AxoniusMulti tiered architecture. Please contact Axonius

    Note: The adapters below fetch a large amount of data. If any of the adapters below are configured and fetching more than 100,000 devices, additional computation power is required.

    • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    • Infoblox DDI
    • Infoblox NetMRI
    • Jamf Pro
    • Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
    • Qualys Cloud Platform
    • ServiceNow
    • Tenable.io
    • VMware Workspace ONE (Airwatch)
    • Wiz
      For the adapters above, additional memory needs to be added to the primary instance or be configured as a separate collector.
    CountAdditional RAM / Size of collector
    1-364 GB
    4-6128 GB
    >6Contact Axonius Support
    NOTE
    It is possible to scale to significantly larger environments using a more advanced multi-node configuration. If you require capacity for an environment larger than our recommendations, feel free to contact Axonius for assistance. Documentation for running additional Axonius nodes can be found here.

    VMware ESXi Virtual Machine Installed as an OVA

    The VM has the following minimum requirements:

    • 500 GB Hard Drive (SSD)
    • Dynamic or static IP address
    • See the Sizing Recommendations above for additional sizing guidelines

    Installation steps:

    1. Download the OVA from the location (URL) provided by your Axonius account representative.
    2. Download the OVA as instructed.
    3. Install in ESXi via VMware vCenter.
    Note:

    You do not need to create any disks in order to do this. It is only needed to import the OVA and allow it to require all needed disks and add required storage.

    Amazon AWS

    This instance has the following minimum requirements:

    • 500 GB Hard Drive
      • EBS (permanent storage) MUST be used
      • Any additional disks must be in EBS
      • SSD with 10 IOPS per 1 GB of space is strongly recommended to ensure best performance
      • Please reach out to Axonius Customer Success for additional questions
    • See the Sizing Recommendations above for additional sizing guidelines

    Installation Steps:

    Please provide Axonius with your AWS account number and region, and we will make the AMI available to your account.

    Note

    Using two disks is a requirement when creating an Axonius instance from an AMI.

    Once the AMI has been made available to your account, deploy it using the following steps:

    1. Access the EC2 management console within AWS.
    2. Navigate to the Images/AMI section.
    3. Select “Private Images” from the dropdown next to the Search bar. You should see the Axonius AMI listed.
    4. Select the Axonius AMI and click “Launch.”
    5. When prompted for Family, select one of the following:
      • m4
      • m5
      • r5
      • m6i
    6. Complete any other required configuration and launch the instance.
    Note:

    For added security, we recommend disabling version 1 of AWS' Instance Metadata API (IMDSv1), as Axonius is fully-compatible with IMDSv2.

    Microsoft Azure

    This instance has the following minimum requirements:

    • 30GB base root disk as provisioned by default in Azure for the operating system
    • An additional 500 GB Hard Drive
      • The default additional disk is NOT permanent, you must select a permanent disk type
      • "Premium SSD V2" is recomended.
      • Please reach out to Axonius Customer Success for additional questions
    • See the Sizing Recommendations above for additional sizing guidelines
    NOTE
    Information on the required Network/Firewall Ports can be found here

    Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

    This instance has the following minimum requirements:

    • Any default disk space required for the operating system

    • An additional 500 GB Hard Drive (the disk must be SSD)
      Provide Axonius with the email address of a user that can provision new images in their GCP environment. Axonius will share the image with this user and will provide the name of the image shared.

    • See the Sizing Recommendations above for additional sizing guidelines

    NOTE
    Information on the required Network/Firewall Ports can be found here


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