System Requirements for Virtual Appliances

To ensure that JSA works correctly, you must use virtual appliances that meet the minimum requirements.

For more information about supported hypervisors and virtual hardware versions, see Creating Your Virtual Machine.

JSA appliances are certified to support certain maximum events per second (EPS) rates. Maximum EPS depends on the type of data that is processed, system configuration, and system load.

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The minimum requirements support JSA functions with minimum data sets and performance. The minimum requirements support a JSA system that uses only the default apps. For optimal performance, use the suggested requirements.

Note:

You can change the memory or the CPU of your virtual appliance by shutting down the virtual appliance and making the changes. When you restart the virtual appliance, the system detects the changes and adjusts the performance-related configuration.

Memory Requirements

The following table describes the memory requirements for virtual appliances.

Table 1: Minimum and Suggested Memory Requirements for JSA Virtual Appliances
Appliance	Minimum memory requirement	Suggested memory requirement
JSA Flow Processor Virtual 1299	6 GB	6 GB
JSA Event Collector Virtual 1599	12 GB	16 GB
JSA Event Processor Virtual 1699 up to 20,000 EPS	16 GB	64 GB
JSA Event Processor Virtual 1699 20,000 EPS or higher	128 GB	128 GB
JSA Flow Processor Virtual 1799 up to 1,200,000 FPM	16 GB	64 GB
JSA Flow Processor Virtual 1799 1,200,000 FPM or higher	128 GB	128 GB
JSA Threat Analytics “All-in-one” or Console 3199 5,000 EPS or less 200,000 FPM or less	32 GB	64 GB
JSA Threat Analytics “All-in-one” or Console 3199 30,000 EPS or less 1,000,000 FPM or less	128 GB	128 GB
JSA Log Manager Virtual 8099	24 GB	48 GB
JSA Risk Manager 700	24 GB	48 GB
JSA Vulnerability Manager Processor 600	32 GB	32 GB
JSA Vulnerability Manager Scanner 610	16 GB	16 GB
JSA App Host 4000	12 GB	64 GB or more for a medium sized App Host 128 GB or more for a large sized App Host

Processor requirements

The following table describes the CPU requirements for virtual appliances.

Table 2: CPU Requirements for JSA Virtual Appliances
Appliance	Threshold	Minimum number of CPU cores	Suggested number of CPU cores
JSA Flow Processor 1299	10,000 FPM or less	4	4
JSA Event Collector Virtual 1599	5,000 EPS or less	8	16
JSA Event Collector Virtual 1599	20,000 EPS or less	19	19
JSA Event Processor Virtual 1699	5,000 EPS or less	8	24
	20,000 EPS or less	16	32
	40,000 EPS or less	40	48
	80,000 EPS or less	56	80
JSA Flow Processor Virtual 1799	150,000 FPM or less	4	24
	300,000 FPM or less	8	24
	1,200,000 FPM or less	16	32
	2,400,000 FPM or less	40	48
	3,600,000 FPM or less	56	80
JSA Threat Analytics “All-in-one” or Console 3199	25,000 Flows per minute (FPM) or less 500 EPS or less	4	24
	50,000 FPM or less 1,000 EPS or less	8	24
	100,000 FPM or less 1,000 EPS or less	12	24
	200,000 FPM or less 5,000 EPS or less	16	32
	300,000 FPM or less 15,000 EPS or less	40	48
	1,200,000 FPM or less 30,000 EPS or less	56	80
JSA Log Manager Virtual 8099	2,500 EPS or less	4	16
JSA Log Manager Virtual 8099	5,000 EPS or less	8	16
JSA Vulnerability Manager Processor 600		4	4
JSA Vulnerability Manager Scanner 610		4	4
JSA Risk Manager 700		8	8
JSA App Host 4000		4	12 or more for a medium-sized App Host 24 or more for a large-sized App Host

Storage Requirements

Your virtual appliance must have at least 256 GB of storage available.

The following table shows the storage requirements for virtual installations.

Table 3: Minimum storage requirements for appliances when you use the virtual installation option.
System classification	IOPS	Data transfer rate (MB/s)
Minimum performance	800	500
Medium performance	1200	1000
High Performance	10,000	2000

System Requirements for Virtual Appliances

Storage Requirements

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