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Find the minimum and recommended system requirements for Private Access Connector virtual appliance deployment.

Note
Note
  • Private Access Connector does not support installation on nested virtual machines.
  • To ensure high availability, deploy at least two Private Access Connector virtual appliances in the same connector group.
Platform
Version
Virtual CPUs
Virtual Memory
Virtual Hard Disk
Virtual Network Adapter
VMware ESXi
6.0, 6.5, 6.7, and 7.0
  • 2 CPU cores minimum
  • 4 CPU cores recommended
  • 4 GB minimum
  • 8 GB recommended
  • 50 GB only
VMXNET3 with a minimum speed of 1,000 MB/s
Microsoft Azure
Latest version
  • 2 CPU cores minimum
  • 4 CPU cores recommended
  • 4 GB minimum
  • 8 GB recommended
  • 50 GB only
N/A
Amazon AWS
Latest version
  • 2 CPU cores minimum
  • 4 CPU cores recommended
  • 4 GB minimum
  • 8 GB recommended
  • 50 GB only
N/A
Google Cloud Platform
Latest version
  • 2 CPU cores minimum
  • 4 CPU cores recommended
  • 4 GB minimum
  • 8 GB recommended
  • 50 GB only
N/A
Microsoft Hyper-V
Latest version
  • 2 CPU cores minimum
  • 4 CPU cores recommended
  • 4 GB minimum
  • 8 GB recommended
  • 50 GB only
N/A

Sizing

Trend Micro advises against allowing the host to dynamically configure VM resources as is the default in VMware. Instead, configure the VM to reserve at least the number of vCPUs and memory listed in the system requirements.
Trend Micro suggests deploying more private access connectors with lower specifications rather than fewer connectors with higher specifications. This approach enhances horizontal scalability. For instance, if you have fewer higher-specification connectors and one fails, it could disrupt a large amount of user application traffic or sessions. The failure of a lower specification but more numerous connector would have a lesser impact.