Virtual Environments

We do not officially support virtual environments.

However, if the virtualization software is able to provide the necessary hardware requirements, it is possible to install and run cognitix Threat Defender in a virtual environment for testing purposes. This will slow its processing speed down, however.

cognitix Threat Defender can process up to 40Gbit/s and higher on suitable hardware and with the respective license volume. It achieves this high processing speed because it directly accesses the network hardware. Any layer added between Threat Defender and the network hardware, such as the operating system and drivers for virtual environments, causes additional latencies and slows the processing speed down.

Note

cognitix Threat Defender cannot be virtualized using Microsoft Azure or Microsoft Hyper-V due to incompatible drivers.

The following examples serve as illustrations on how to set up Threat Defender in a virtual environment for evaluation purposes. However, due to the wide variety of operating system environments we cannot guarantee that they will work in every case.

• VirtualBox
• QEMU/KVM