Deploy the ExtraHop Command Appliance in AWS
This guide explains how to launch the ExtraHop Command appliance AMI to monitor your Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment. You must have administrative access to AWS to launch a third-party AMI and an ExtraHop product key to complete these procedures.
Before you deploy the Command appliance, determine the optimal provisioning needs for your environment. For more information, see the Performance guidelines section.
Important: | If you want to deploy more than one ExtraHop virtual appliance, create the new instance with the original deployment package or clone an existing instance that has never been started. |
Create the ExtraHop instance in AWS
Before you begin
The Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) of ExtraHop appliances are not publicly shared. Before you can start the deployment procedure, you must send your AWS account ID to support@extrahop.com. Your account ID will be linked to the ExtraHop AMIs.
Register an ExtraHop system in AWS
Complete the following steps to apply a product key supplied by ExtraHop Support in an AWS environment.
If you do not have a product key, contact your ExtraHop account team.
Tip: | To verify that your environment can resolve DNS entries for the
ExtraHop licensing server, open a terminal application on your Windows, Linux, or
Mac OS client and run the following
command:nslookup -type=NS d.extrahop.com If the name
resolution is successful, output similar to the following
appears:
Non-authoritative answer: d.extrahop.com nameserver = ns0.use.d.extrahop.com. d.extrahop.com nameserver = ns0.usw.d.extrahop.com. |
Performance guidelines
The following table provides guidelines that can help you optimize the performance of the Command appliance. These guidelines are minimum requirements that you might need to adjust based on the size and needs of your environment.
Scalability | Discover Appliances | 1-4 | 5-16 | 17-64 | 65 or more |
Provisioning Requirements | CPU Cores | 2 | 4 | 8 | 16 |
RAM | 4 GB | 8 GB | 16 GB | 24 GB | |
Disk Total | 44 GB | ||||
Networking Requirements | One 1 Gbps Ethernet network port accessible on port 443 |
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