System Requirements

Extreme Visibility Manager is installed on multiple virtual machines (VMs).

VM requirements

VM Type Minimum Number of VMs System Requirements Maximum Devices
Control plane 1
  • 2 vCPU
  • 4 GB RAM
  • 32 GB storage
N/A
Region 3
  • 4 vCPU
  • 16 GB RAM
  • 200 GB storage
100 devices per region
Zone 1
  • 2 vCPU
  • 4 GB RAM
  • 32 GB storage
25 devices per zone

System prerequisites

  • Install libguestfs-tools (for quick installation) on the Hypervisor where VMs are hosted.

    sudo yum install libguestfs-tools

  • Do not use the 192.168.0.0/16 series of IP addresses as management IP addresses for VMs.
  • Do not use capital letters in host names.
  • Ensure that all VMs have the same time zone as the devices that you want to monitor.

    timedatectl set-timezone <time-zone>

Supported connection protocols

Connections between Visibility Manager and the Extreme 9920 device are over secure TLS.

Connections between Visibility Manager and SLX or MLX devices are over UDP without TLS.

Browser requirements

You can access the Visibility Manager user interface with the following browsers:
  • Google Chrome
  • Mozilla Firefox

Certificate requirements

Visibility Manager uses HTTPS and requires self-signed certificates.