Third Party Virtual Machine

Important

TPVM includes an administrator account with a default username and password. To ensure security, you must change the default password when you access TPVM for the first time, before enabling the IAH ports using the no shutdown command. The software automatically prompts you to change this password at first boot; no action can be taken with the VM until you change the password.

The following user applications are available on TPVM:

• Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server

• Domain Name Server (DNS)

• Authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) server for Remote Access Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) and Terminal Access Controller Access Control Service Plus (TACACS+).

• Syslog server

• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) trap receiver

• Surricata - a free and open-source robust network threat detection engine that provides real time intrusion detection (IDS), inline intrusion prevention (IPS), network security monitoring (NSM), and offline packet capture (pcap) processing.

• Wireshark – a protocol analyzer that provides packet capturing and analysis.

• Ostinato - provides packet crafting, network traffic generation, and analysis with a user-friendly Graphical User Interface (GUI).

Note

If you start the console for TPVM without network connectivity to a DHCP server, the VM remains in a retry loop for approximately 5 minutes while it tries to obtain a DHCP address. The system displays the following message: [FAILED] Failed to start Raise network interfaces, and then the VM continues to boot. The VM does start but with the virtual port, eth0, in the administratively down state.

The following are the virtual services resources for TPVM:

• Two CPU cores

• 4 GB RAM

• One virtual port of VT-d connection type

• 1.8 GB up to 32 GB SSD

  

  Note

  To use this feature on the applicable models of VSP 4900 Series, you must install an SSD module in the switch.