Forcepoint Virtual Appliance for Web and Email specifications
ESXi VMware
Version 8.5.5 Web and Email Virtual Appliances are certified and supported for VMware ESXi 7.0 / 6.7 / 6.5 / 6.0. A stable release of ESXi is recommended to avoid unexpected issues.
Note: For ESXi
6.7 and 7.0, users must use the 8.5.4 or 8.5.5 version OVA file to create a new VM. Versions 8.5.3 and earlier will not deploy and is not supported on ESXi 6.7 or 7.0.
Supported solutions
- Forcepoint Email Security (certified)
- Forcepoint Web Security (certified)
- Forcepoint URL Filtering (certified)
Forcepoint Email Security VM specification
The install OVA creates a virtual machine with the following specifications:
- 6 CPU cores
- 16 GB RAM
- 1 - 128 GB disk
- 1 - 129 GB disk
- 4 E1000 virtual network interfaces (1 reserved port)
Network interfaces
All Forcepoint Web Security VMware virtual appliances come with 4 virtual Ethernet interfaces.
C — Supports Forcepoint appliance management communication.
P1, P2 — Support Content Gateway web proxy traffic.
N - Reserved; Network Agent and Content Gateway decryption port mirror are not supported on VMware virtual appliances in v8.5.5.