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Deep Discovery Email Inspector supports installation on the following:
  • VMware ESXi 6.7, 7.0, or 8.0
  • Microsoft Hyper-V on Windows Server 2016, 2019, or 2022
  • Nutanix AHV
  • KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine)
Deep Discovery Email Inspector virtual appliances do not support nested virtual machines.
Note
Note
For file or URL sandbox analysis, connect Deep Discovery Email Inspector virtual appliances to Deep Discovery Analyzer.
Trend Micro recommends the following minimum specifications based on your licensed model's throughput.

Specifications for Virtual Appliance

Messages Per Day
Virtual CPUs*
Virtual Memory (GB)
Virtual Disk
Virtual NICs**
Deep Discovery Analyzer 1100 Appliance***
300K
3
10
500 GB
Refer to the following table
1 per 2 Deep Discovery Email Inspector virtual appliances
700K
6
16
1 TB
Refer to the following table
1 for each Deep Discovery Email Inspector virtual appliance
The following table shows the minimum virtual NIC requirements for each operation mode.

Minimum virtual NIC requirements

Operation Mode
Virtual NICs Required**
Virtual NICs Used
BCC
1
  • ETH0 (data/management port)
MTA
1
  • ETH0 (data/management port)
SPAN/TAP
3
  • ETH0 (management port)
  • ETH1 (reserved)
  • ETH2 (data port)
Note
Note
* The virtual CPUs require a minimum speed of 2.3 GHz with hyper-threading support, Virtualization Technology (VT), and 64-bit architecture.
** Virtual NICs require a minimum speed of 1000 Mb/s. Trend Micro supports only the VMXNET 3 network adapter on ESXi. If you configure more than three virtual NICs for the virtual appliance, only the last two ports can be used for SPAN/TAP mode.
***Trend Micro recommends configuring two Virtual Analyzer images with 60 instances on a Deep Discovery Analyzer 1100 appliance to analyze up to 16000 samples per day.