Requirements for Virtual Appliance Version 103.0.0.338

Requirements for Virtual Appliance Version 103.0.0.338

Upgrading to version 103.0.0.338

Before downloading the upgrade package, ensure the following:

  • Rollback from 103.0.0.338 is not supported.
  • You are running a minimum version of 96.0.0. If you are running appliance versions older than 96.0.0, 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.

ComponentRequirements
Physical RAM32 GB
Processor8-Core
Hard disk space400 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 93.1.0 and older releases are deprecated when appliance release 103.0.0.338 goes live. Release numbers are not sequential like 101, 102, and 103. Instead, release numbers jump numerically, like 96.0.0, 99.0.0, and 103.0.0.338, to reflect parity with the Netskope Cloud Releases.

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

Note

If you configured the appliance to act as a DPoP appliance and manually deleted the URL database package, you must first disable DPoP before you install the upgrade. Use the following command to disable DPoP:

set dataplane forward-proxy enable false
save

Once you install the upgrade, use the following command to re-enable DPoP:

set dataplane forward-proxy enable true
save

Current versionUpgrade to version
Any version before 96.0.096.0.0
96.0.0103.0.0.338
99.0.0103.0.0.338

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 103.0.0.338.

File Typemd5sumsha256sum
ESX OVA39a3615d1540afb5ff28c7e0801c596856b5756f90a6f175dcfbcc5675885344010c0477ed03017322be32322bcf5a91
Hyper-V Image519b1545022cef420e1bb07d6d07aff17d3e23007a56c09c5a8118da0409ad0c485302fc52781372a11cb804568fd0f8
KVM Image2a28a5e0dc51f92d83204934c3f5e2b13298797d857347e60faaa9071509d216e802429e7dfbfd304339fc97ed92c375
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