Verifying Prerequisites

This section describes the prerequisites, including the hardware and network requirements, for installing and using Protegrity appliances on Azure.

Prerequisites

The following prerequisites are essential to install the Protegrity appliances on Azure:

  • Sign in URL for the Azure account
  • Authentication credentials for the Azure account
  • Working knowledge of Azure
  • Access to the My.Protegrity portal

Before you begin:

Ensure that you use the following order to create a virtual machine on Azure:

OrderDescription
1Create a Resource Group
2Create a Storage Account
3Create a Container
4Obtain the Azure BLOB
5Create an image from the BLOB
6Create a VM from the image

Hardware Requirements

As the Protegrity appliances are hosted and run on Azure, the hardware requirements are dependent on the configurations provided by Microsoft. However, these requirements can change based on the customer requirements and budget. The actual hardware configuration depends on the actual usage or amount of data and logs expected.

The minimum recommendation for an appliance is 8 CPU cores and 32 GB memory. This option is available under the Standard_D8s_v3 option on Azure.

For more information about the hardware requirements of ESA, refer here.

Network Requirements

The Protegrity appliances on Azure are provided with an Azure virtual networking environment. The virtual network enables you to access other instances of Protegrity resources in your project.

For more information about configuring Azure virtual network, refer here.

Last modified January 30, 2025