ESXi VMware

8.5.0 and 8.5.3 VMware virtual appliances are certified with ESXi v6.0, and supported on v5.5 and other versions of 6.5.

8.5.4 VMware virtual appliances are certified and supported with ESXi 6.0/6.5/6.7, and supported with ESXi 7.0.

Supported Forcepoint solutions
  • Forcepoint Email Security
  • Forcepoint Web Security
  • Forcepoint URL Filtering

Forcepoint Email Security VM specifications

The install OVA creates a virtual machine with the following specifications:
  • 6 CPU cores
  • 12 GB RAM
  • 1- 235 GB disk
  • 1- 100 GB disk
  • 4- E1000 virtual network interfaces (one reserved port)
    Important: Beginning in v8.5.0, the CPU cores and RAM allocation can be increased. Disk size and network interface cannot be changed.

Network interfaces

All VMware virtual appliances come with 4 virtual Ethernet interfaces.

C — Supports appliance management communication

P1, P2 — Support MTA traffic

N — Reserved

Forcepoint Web Security and Forcepoint URL Filtering VM specification

The install OVA creates a virtual machine with the following specifications:
  • 6 CPU cores
  • 12 GB RAM
  • 1- 128 GB disk
  • 1- 129 GB disk
  • 4- E1000 virtual network interfaces (one reserved port)
    Important: Beginning in v8.5.0, the CPU cores and RAM allocation can be increased. Disk size and network interface cannot be changed.

Network interfaces

All VMware virtual appliances come with 4 virtual Ethernet interfaces.

C — Supports appliance management communication

P1, P2 — Support Content Gateway web proxy traffic

N — Reserved; Network Agent and the Content Gateway decryption mirror port feature are not supported on VMware virtual appliances in v8.5.0.

Forcepoint Virtual Appliance Setup