Technical Requirements

Minimum Requirements (on premise)

• Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS ("Focal Fossa"):

  • Please download the Ubuntu ISO image from: https://releases.ubuntu.com/focal/

• 8 vCPUs (Preferably 16 vCPUs)

• 16 GB RAM (Preferably 32GB)

• 32 GB Free Disk Space (SSD): Filescan requires 25 GB on the first installation (subsequent upgrades will potentially consume more disk space)

  • Please note that the Ubuntu server installer will configure the main disk as an LVM group by default (2 partitions mirroring each other). For example, on a 100 GB disk you will get approx. 50 GB usable storage. This provides redundancy and better data safety, so please consider doubling your disk size. Alternatively, you can uncheck the "Set up this disk as an LVM group" option during the Ubuntu installation, see: https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/install/storage

• Internet access is temporarily required during the installation & upgrade process.

Note: More than 25000 scans/day requires a custom multi-server setup and needs to be scoped out with the engineering team.

Due to the low resource requirements and cloud-native capability, OPSWAT Filescan Sandbox does not require nested VMs and can be deployed and operate with its proprietary virtualization technology directly on the host system.

Example Hardware Setup

• Intel Xeon-E 2136 (12M Cache, 3.30 GHz)
• RAM 32GB DDR4 ECC 2666 MHz
• 2x SSD NVMe 256GB RAID

Note: this is an example system that would allow processing 50K files/day with a retention period of 10 days.

Throughput / Hardware Requirements

The following table lists explanatory system specs with a retention period of 10 days:

*Currently the maximum numbers of scans/day per instance

Minimum Cloud Requirements (AWS)

• 5000 scans/day: m5a.xlarge
• 10000 scans/day: c5a.2xlarge
• 25000 scans/day: c5a.4xlarge

Network Setup

It is recommended to run the product in a segregated network segment, or to operate the sandbox engine in a DMZ entirely.