Installing Deep Discovery Email Inspector on a Virtual Appliance

WARNING

Back up any existing data on the target hard disk before installing Deep Discovery Email Inspector. The installation process formats and repartitions the hard disk and removes all existing data.

Important

You must separately license VMware ESXi and such use is subject to the terms and conditions of the VMware license agreement for that product.
Deleting an eth port on the Deep Discovery Email Inspector virtual appliance requires reinstallation.

Procedure

Create a virtual appliance.

For details, see Creating a New Virtual Appliance.

When installing Deep Discovery Email Inspector on a VMware ESXi server, disable the snapshot feature for the virtual appliance to preserve hard disk space.
Start the virtual machine.
Perform the following tasks:
1. Insert the Deep Discovery Email Inspector installation DVD into the physical CD/DVD drive of the hypervisor server.
2. Connect the virtual CD/DVD drive of the virtual appliance to the physical CD/DVD drive of the hypervisor server.
3. Connect the virtual CD/DVD drive of the virtual appliance to the ISO file.
Restart the virtual appliance.
1. In the VMware vSphere Client, go to Virtual Machine → [virtual machine name].
2. Click Console and select Open browser console.
3. On the console screen that appears, click Actions on the top-left corner and click Guest OS → Send keys → Ctrl-Alt-Delete.
The installation screen appears.
Select Install Appliance and press ENTER. Then, follow the procedure in Installing Deep Discovery Email Inspector on a Hardware Appliance With an Optical Drive to complete the installation process.
(Optional) Remove the DVD to prevent reinstallation.
Configure network settings to access the management console.

For details, see Configuring Management Console Access.
Open the management console.

For details, see The Management Console.

For information about configuring Deep Discovery Email Inspector, see the Deep Discovery Email Inspector Administrator's Guide.