Overview of installation
Information about the intended audience is covered here. A general architecture and an overview of the Protegrity Data Security Platform is also described to provide a better understanding of the products.
Installation
Install the latest version of the ESA appliance.
System Requirements
Lists the hardware requirements for the appliances components.
Partitioning of Disk on an Appliance
A firmware is a low-level software that is responsible to initialize the hardware components of a system during the boot process. It is required to initialize the boot process. It provides runtime services for the operating system and the programs on the system. There are two types of boot modes in the system setup, Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) and Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI).
Installing the ESA On-Premise
The following steps explain the installation of the ESA v10.0.x ISO image on-premise.
Configuring the ESA
Complete the configurations after the ESA installation.
Installing Appliances on Cloud Platforms
Installing the appliances on Cloud platforms, such as, AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Initializing the Policy Information Management (PIM) Module
After completing the installation of the ESA, you must initialize the Policy Information Management (PIM) module, which creates the keys-related data and the policy repository.
Configuring the ESA in a Trusted Appliances Cluster (TAC)
In a scenario where the ESAs are configured in a TAC setup, you must add at least three Appliance nodes for the Audit Store cluster.
Creating an Audit Store Cluster
Create an Audit Store cluster after installing and setting up three ESAs.
Verifying the ESA installation from the Web UI
After you install the ESA v10.0.x, perform the following steps to verify the installation.