System Deployment - Deploying the Virtual Appliance

  • Updated on Feb 6, 2025
  • Published on Oct 30, 2024
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The Axonius solution is installed as a virtual appliance in VMware ESXi, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and GCP.

Sizing Recommendations

Count of Unique Assets or Adapters (whichever comes first)

RAM

CPU Cores

Disk

Disk IOPS

Additional Requirements

AWS Instance Type

Azure Instance Type

GCP Instance Type

Minimum Requirements

32 GB

8 virtual cores

500 GB

Any SSD

None

m5.2xlarge

D8 v5

c3-standard-8

> 25k assets and / or > 5 adapters

64 GB

16 virtual cores

500 GB

Any SSD

None

m5.4xlarge

D16 v5

c3-standard-22

>100k but <500k assets and/or >10 but <20 adapters

128 GB

16 virtual cores

1000 GB

Minimum 10,000 IOPS  Recommended: 10 IOPS per GB, with 10,000 IOPS minimum

Additional Compute Node required for specific adapters*

r5.4xlarge

E16 v4/5

c3-standard-44

> 500k assets and / or > 20 adapters

256 GB

32 virtual cores

1500 GB

Minimum 15,000 IOPS  Recommended: 10 IOPS per GB, with 15,000 IOPS minimum IOPS

Additional Compute Node required for specific adapters*

r5.8xlarge

E32 v4/5

c3-standard-88

> 1,000k assets and / or > 20 adapters

Multi tiered architecture. Contact Axonius.

Multi tiered architecture. Contact Axonius.

Multi tiered architecture. Contact Axonius.

Multi tiered architecture. Contact Axonius.

Additional Compute Node required for specific adapters*

Multi tiered architecture. Contact Axonius.

Multi tiered architecture. Contact Axonius.

Multi tiered architecture. Contact Axonius.

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

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  • Infoblox DDI

  • Infoblox NetMRI

  • Jamf Pro

  • Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MECM) (formerly 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 compute node.

Count

Additional RAM / Size of compute node

1-3

64 GB

4-6

128 GB

>6

Contact 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. 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 recommended.

    • 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.