The following sections provide information on system requirements and step-by-step instructions for installing the Software Appliance.

The Software Appliance supports the leading virtualization platforms, including VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, and KVM-based hypervisors.

System Requirements

Before you install the Software Appliance, ensure that the system requirements are met.

The following hardware specifications are recommended for the virtual machine.

  • RAM: 16 GB
  • Disk space:
    1st Disk: 60 GB firmware
    2nd Disk: 2 TB data disk
  • CPU: 8 vCPU cores
  • 1 NIC

Software Appliance Installation

Prerequisites

The following lists prerequisites for the installation instructions:

  • A Software Appliance package (downloaded from your Keyfactor download area).
  • Mozilla Firefox installed on the administrator workstation.

Create Virtual Machine

For step-by-step instructions on how to create a virtual machine, see the following sections:

Ports and Protocols

Pre-installation requirements:

Make sure that the network administration has granted the necessary rights to generate the following connections.

ProtocolDirectionPortProtocol
HTTPin80TCP (Transmission Control Protocol)
HTTPSin443TCP (Transmission Control Protocol)

SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) 

in161UDP (User Datagram Protocol)
internal clustering (VPN) in/out54905UDP
NTP (Network Time Protocol) optionalout123Default UDP
DNS (Domain Name System) out53UDP
syslog (System Logging Protocol)out514 (configurable)Default UDP
HSM (Hardware Security Module)DirectionPort
Luna Network HSMout1792 (configurable)
Thales DPoDoutvaries

Utimaco CryptoServer LAN

out288
TrustWay Proteccio netHSM

out

out

5551

5552

Entrust nShield Connect


out

in*

9004 (configurable)

9004

* only open if the toggle Allow nShield HSMs to fetch software-based key hash is turned on.


External DatabaseDirectionPort
MariaDB Databaseout3306

Oracle Database

out1521
PostgreSQLout5432
Microsoft SQL Serverout1433