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Sheriff CSM Deployment Requirements

Sheriff CSM has the following general deployment requirements.

Minimum Hardware Requirements for Virtual Machines

All Sheriff CSM hardware meets the requirement listed in the table below. To achieve sufficient performance, you need to use similar or better hardware to host every Sheriff CSM virtual machine. Hosting Sheriff CSM virtual machines on inadequate system resources may affect their ability to perform necessary tasks, and also may affect the stated throughput. In addition, if you satisfy the hardware specification but try to run multiple Sheriff CSM virtual machines on it, the performance degrades.

Warning: In Sheriff CSM version 5.4, Sheriff updated its Network IDS to include the Hyperscan library, which requires the CPU to support SSSE3 (Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extensions 3) instruction set. To check if your CPU contains SSSE3, see our knowledge base article.

Sheriff CSM Minimum Required Hardware Specifications

Name	Value
CPU Type	Intel® Xeon E5620
RAM Type	DDR3 1333 MHz
Disk Type	SAS 10000 RPM (204 MB/s)
Memory Performance (MEMCPY)	3310.32 MiB/s
Disk Performance (random read/write)	15.97 MB/s (120 Mb/s)

Virtual Machine Requirements

The following table lists the system requirements for deploying different Sheriff CSM virtual machines. For a more complete list, see the Sheriff CSM data sheet on the Sheriff website.

Important: The virtual machines must operate in Hardware Virtualization Mode (HVM). Paravirtualization is not supported at this time as the device requires SCSI device Bus (SDx) connectors.

Sheriff CSM Virtual Machine Requirements

	Sheriff CSM All-in-One		Remote Sensor (Deputy)		Sheriff CSM Standard
	1TB	500GB	1TB	250GB	Server	Logger	Sensor
Total Cores1	8		4		8
RAM (GB)	16		8		24
Storage (TB)	1.0	0.5	1.0	0.25	1.2	1.8	1.2
Virtualization Environment	VMware virtual hardware version 10+ (ESXi 5.5 and later)2 Hyper-V 3.0+ (Windows Server 2008 SP2 and later)

Supported Browsers

Sheriff supports the following browsers. All Sheriff CSM releases are tested on the most recent version of the browsers and one version prior to the most recent.

Supported Browsers

Browser/Platform	Windows	Mac OS X	Linux
Chrome	Yes	Yes	Yes
Edge	Yes	N/A	N/A
Firefox	Yes	Yes	Yes
Internet Explorer 11	Yes	N/A	N/A
Safari	N/A	Yes	N/A