Before deploying the appliance

Before you deploy the Deep Security Virtual Appliance:

• Review this table to see which NSX licenses and versions are supported.
• Review these system requirements.
• If the features you want are not available agentlessly, use 'combined mode'.
• If you want to use VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) for high availability (HA), configure DRS.
• If you configured guest VMs to have direct access to a network card, install agents on those VMs. In this case there is no opportunity to intercept packets and an in-guest agent is preferable. See Choose agentless vs. combined mode protection for details.
• Make sure the virtual appliance—known as a 'service VM' in VMware terminology—can communicate with the partner Service Manager (console) at the management network level. For details, see this NSX-T help page if you are using NSX-T, or this NSX-V help page if you are using NSX-V.

You are now ready to deploy the appliance. Proceed to one of these pages depending on your VMware environment:

• Deploy the appliance (NSX-T)
• Deploy the appliance (NSX-V)
• Deploy the appliance in a vCloud environment