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The following table describes the minimum physical NIC requirements for Deep Discovery Inspector virtual appliances.

Virtual Appliance Physical NIC Requirements

Traffic Source
Remote Mirroring
Encapsulated Remote Mirroring
Distributed Port Mirroring
External network traffic
The destination ESXi host requires a 1 Gbps Ethernet network port as an uplink
The destination ESXi host requires a 1 Gbps Ethernet network port as an uplink
Note
Note
The port must be routable from the enscapsulated remote mirroring source.
Not supported
VM network traffic
Each ESXi host requires a 1 Gbps Ethernet network port as an uplink
The destination ESXi host requires a 1 Gbps Ethernet network port as an uplink
Note
Note
The port must be routable from the other ESXi host management VMkernel port.
No physical port requirement