The following table describes the minimum physical NIC requirements for Deep Discovery Inspector virtual appliances.
Virtual Appliance Physical NIC Requirements
Traffic Source
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Remote Mirroring
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Encapsulated Remote Mirroring
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Distributed Port Mirroring
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External network traffic
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The destination ESXi host requires a 1 Gbps Ethernet network port as an
uplink
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The destination ESXi host requires a 1 Gbps Ethernet network port as an
uplink
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Not supported
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VM network traffic
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Each ESXi host requires a 1 Gbps Ethernet network port as an uplink
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The destination ESXi host requires a 1 Gbps Ethernet network port as an uplink
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No physical port requirement
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