System Requirements

The following system requirements are necessary to ensure you have the best experience with InsightVM and Nexpose.

Hardware requirements

Console and Scan Engine hardware requirements are different because the Console uses significantly more resources.

InsightVM does not support running its console or engine in containers.

Console requirements

At this time, we only support x86_64 architecture.

Asset volumeProcessorMemoryStorage
5,0004 cores16 GB1 TB
20,00012 cores64 GB2 TB
150,00012 cores128 GB4 TB
400,00012 cores256 GB8 TB

Scan Engine requirements

At this time, we only support x86_64 architecture.

Asset volume per dayProcessorMemoryStorage
5,000 assets/day2 cores8 GB100 GB
20,000 assets/day4 cores16 GB200 GB

Operating Systems

We require an English operating system with English/United States regional settings.

64-bit versions of the following platforms are supported:

PlatformVersions
Linux
  • Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS (Recommended)
  • Ubuntu Linux 18.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu Linux 16.04 LTS
  • Oracle Linux 8
  • Oracle Linux 7
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
Microsoft Windows
  • Windows Server Desktop experience only. Core not supported.
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2022
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2019
    • Microsoft Windows Server 2016
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Microsoft Windows 8.1
RedHat
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6
CentOS
  • CentOS 7

Browsers

We support the most recent version of the following browsers:

  • Google Chrome (Recommended)
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Mozilla Firefox ESR
  • Microsoft Edge