Deploy Device Intelligence Virtual Appliance on VMware vSphere
Deploy Device Intelligence Virtual Appliance on VMware vSphere
Prerequisites and Limitations
- You have a licensed copy of the Device Intelligence product with the serial number required for activation. Please reach out to the Netskope support team to buy the product.
- You have Device Intelligence template files downloaded locally. Please reach out to Netskope support or Technical Account Manager to get Device Intelligence template files.
- Minimum two network interfaces (vNICs) are set up. One is a dedicated vNIC for the management interface and one is for the SPAN interface. An additional vNIC for SPAN traffic can be added if needed.
- Virtual standard switch or virtual distributed switch is set up with “promiscuous” mode to receive span traffic.
- Device Intelligence virtual appliance supports ESXi servers.
- The host must be a x86-based Intel or AMD CPU with virtualization extension.
- Device Intelligence OVA/OVF supports VMware virtual machine hardware version vmx-14.
Create Device Intelligence Appliance
- Log in to your VMware vSphere Client.
- Click on the server and select the Deploy OVF Template option from the Actions dropdown menu. Deploy OVF Template dialog box appears.
- On step 1, select the four locally downloaded Device Intelligence VM template files and click Next. Use multiple selection to select all the OVF template (.ovf, .vmdk, .mf, and .nvram) files.
- On step 2, give a name to the Device Intelligence virtual appliance, and in the Location dialog box, select a folder to create the VM, and click Next.
- On step 3, select the destination compute resource, and click Next.
- On step 4, review and verify the template default configurations, and click Next.
- On step 5, select the virtual disk format as Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed type. Select a valid destination storage, and click Next.
- On step 6, select the 2 configured vNICs to the network sources. By default, the IP address is allocated in IPv4 static format. Click Next.
- On step 7, change the guestinfo.serial value to the serial number provided by the support team when you bought the product.
- On step 8, review the configuration and Click Finish to start VM creation. Wait for the virtual machine to be ready for use.
Activate Device Intelligence
- Click the Actions menu of the Device Intelligence appliance VM and Power on the machine.
- Log in to the Device Intelligence appliance from the browser using https://app.iotsec.goskope.com/login link with Netskope registered email and password.
Note
If you do not have the credentials, contact the Netskope product vendor, marketing team, or support team.