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Virtual Machine Requirements

CA Application Delivery Analysis supports the management console and the CA Standard Monitor on VMware ESX® and VMware ESXi® 3.5, 4.0, or 5.0.

To achieve equal performance in an environment that stresses a physical server, more memory is required in VMware than on a physical server. Physical servers outperform virtual machines in the area of disk I/O. CA Application Delivery Analysis servers task the disk I/O heavily. Expect less-than-equal performance on a VMware machine.

A CA Standard Monitor that is deployed on VMware can receive data from CA GigaStor Connector and WAN optimization devices such as Cisco WAE.

Important: Install VMware Tools on the virtual machines that host CA Application Delivery Analysis. Remove the CD/DVD drive from the virtual machine configuration.

Standard Monitor

CA has tested the Standard Monitor on a virtual machine with the following specifications. We recommend that your virtual machine conform to these specifications, at a minimum.

• One virtual processor
• 4 GB RAM
• 300 GB available disk space
• Two virtual network adapters (1 Gbit minimum). An uplink port (a physical port leaving the ESX Host) is required on one of the virtual network adapters.

  (Optional) To monitor TCP traffic on 2 monitor NICs, provision an additional Ethernet RJ-45 port.

Management Console

CA has tested the management console on a virtual machine with the following specifications. We recommend that your virtual machine conform to these specifications, at a minimum.

• One virtual processor
• 30 GB RAM
• 700 GB available disk space
• One virtual network adapter (1 Gbit minimum). An uplink port (physical port leaving the ESX Host) is required on the network adapter.