System Requirements

CPU and RAM requirements scale with the expected traffic aggregate volume.

Disk requirements scale with selective packet capture workloads. This value can be approximated using: $ ~/flowpro/flowpro-settings.yaml

• The $pcap.server_capture_depth value determines how many payload observations will be maintined per capture

• The $pcap.server_ttl_hours value determines how long captures are stored after the last observation

• The maximum MTU of monitored interfaces

Required Storage Bytes = Capture Depth * MTU * Expected Source Host - Well Known Port - Destination Host combinations stored during TTL time duration

The VM Deploys by default with:

Default VM Configuration
CPU	8 cores
RAM	8 GB
Disk	100GB

Resource Scaling Recommendations

MEDIUM TRAFFIC (Up to 1 GBIT PER SECOND)
CPU	6-10 cores
RAM	10-18GB
Disk	100GB+

HIGH TRAFFIC (1 - 10 GBITS PER SECOND)
Recommendation	Hardware Solution Recommended
CPU	10-18 cores
RAM	18-34GB
Disk	100GB+

Note

Scale the disk to meet the specific requirements for selective PCAP usage.