Requirements for Virtual Appliance Version 121.0.0

Upgrading to version 121.0.0

Before downloading the upgrade package, ensure the following:

You are running a minimum version of 113.0.0. If you are running appliance versions older than 113.0.0, 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 42 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.X where the Xs represent the major, minor, hotfix, and build release numbers, respectively. For example, appliance release 110.0.0 and older releases are deprecated when appliance release 121.0.0 goes live. Release numbers are not sequential like 101, 102, and 103. Instead, release numbers jump numerically, like 113.0.0, 117.0.0, and 121.0.0, 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 113.0.0	113.0.0
113.0.0	121.0.0
117.0.0	121.0.0

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.

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 121.0.0.

File Type	md5sum	sha256sum
ESX OVA	99a6c8867e00df8ac393ed83c1c4651c	a67ed3931dec5b4322140ff51d0034e046577a10121152bbbbd969f56265ddd7
Hyper-V Image	fe77a918513657035000f0e2d3d8f581	5b7da9449711aa152d21966112b08b47c1023352b4ed7031bdceae488c99a384
KVM Image	7b9e4f76a38551d2cdf38a66a4464ad3	33716eda8b3a940708116816a8ca7c0b31ca5f31e3e58cd3810f8058d77603c9

Netskope MIB File

The following is the Netskope MIB file for 121.0.0:

NETSKOPE-APPLIANCE-MIB-APL121 Download

Requirements for Virtual Appliance Version 121.0.0