Requirements for Virtual Appliance Version 113.0.0

Upgrading to version 113.0.0

Before downloading the upgrade package, ensure the following:

You are running a minimum version of 106.0.0.379. If you are running appliance versions older than 106.0.0.379, or if the root (/) partition is less than 64 GB, you must deploy a new Virtual Appliance and import configurations from the old appliance. To learn more: Install a Virtual Appliance.
Note
If your Virtual Appliance uses a 64 GB root (/) partition, then you must ensure that at least 8 GB of free space is available before upgrading.
There is at least 25 GB of free space on the /opt/ns/upgrades partition where the upgrade package is downloaded. You can delete older versions of the appliance from the upgrades folder to free up disk space.
To learn more: Upgrade the Virtual Appliance.
All the dhcp interfaces on the appliance are configured with a static IP, netmask and gateway.
Export the current appliance configurations to a different host. To learn more: Exporting Configurations.

To verify that the host is reachable, run the following telnet command.

nsappliance> telnet host cz.archive.ubuntu.com port 80
Executing telnet as: ['telnet', 'cz.archive.ubuntu.com', '80']
Trying 217.31.202.63...
Connected to mirror-r-01.nic.cz.
Escape character is '^]'.

The following are the minimum hardware requirements to install and run the Virtual Appliance.

Component	Requirements
Physical RAM	32 GB
Processor	8-Core
Hard disk space	400 GB is the total disk space required across all partitions. This includes 96 GB for storing and processing logs and 304 GB for the root partitions which store the Netskope software, configuration files, and data files. You must increase the disk capacity depending on the size of the logs that are processed daily. For information on increasing the partition size, see “Increase the Size of the Partition” under Optional Configurations topic on the Knowledge Portal. Note Netskope recommends that you increase the disk capacity by 5 times the expected daily log collection size.

Component

Requirements

Physical RAM

32 GB

Processor

8-Core

Hard disk space

400 GB is the total disk space required across all partitions. This includes 96 GB for storing and processing logs and 304 GB for the root partitions which store the Netskope software, configuration files, and data files.

You must increase the disk capacity depending on the size of the logs that are processed daily.

For information on increasing the partition size, see “Increase the Size of the Partition” under Optional Configurations topic on the Knowledge Portal.

Note

Netskope recommends that you increase the disk capacity by 5 times the expected daily log collection size.

Appliance Software Version Support

Netskope Appliance software releases are available every 4-months and will have Netskope support up to two previous versions. Direct software upgrades are supported as long as the “from” and “to” software releases are within two versions apart.

Netskope appliance releases are numbered in the form of X.X.X where the Xs represent the major, minor, and build release numbers, respectively. For example, appliance release 103.0.0.338 and older releases are deprecated when appliance release 113.0.0 goes live. Release numbers are not sequential like 101, 102, and 103. Instead, release numbers jump numerically, like 106.0.0.379, 110.0.0, and 113.0.0, to reflect parity with the Netskope Cloud Releases.

The following table provides the upgrade path to the latest software version.

Current version	Upgrade to version
Any version before 106.0.0.379	106.0.0.379
106.0.0.379	113.0.0
110.0.0	113.0.0

Releases that are outside the Netskope support period:

Are not guaranteed to work with the latest cloud releases.
Are no longer tested by Netskope.
Do not receive hotfixes.
Do not receive new feature updates.

At our discretion, we may provide support for releases outside our support period. If a customer encounters an error in a version of software that is other than the latest release, Netskope may require the customer to upgrade to a specified later version to obtain a correction of the error.

For information about end-of-life and end-of-support for appliance releases, refer to EOL/EOS for DPoP r99.

Hash values for Virtual Appliance Installation Files

The following table provides the md5sum and sha256sum values for the Virtual Appliance installer files on VMware ESX, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Linux KVM platforms for version 113.0.0.

File Type	md5sum	sha256sum
ESX OVA	999a1b490266bd9bbcb22939c915f926	4878b08e340772438a07737a64c36d05684fa9dbfc97d537ae45f6a9a06ac436
Hyper-V Image	9ad31ba9adff96ab21f518ffba940016	19a10b210412255528c32d50cd1a4bc614fddc5924fd674c59b98a6337ec78a2
KVM Image	163a07e57b372a224f77f68729c1ea31	3d6477cbb214805861b2d9a398f71bb04228e58499c50bf3cc6076c69b8fc04e

Requirements for Virtual Appliance Version 113.0.0