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.