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Installing the Appliance on Azure

Overview

To install the Appliance on Microsoft Azure:

  1. Check the hardware requirements of the virtual machines to request in Azure according to the size of your setup.

  2. Download the Nexthink Appliance VHD image for Azure from the V6 Release Notes:

    • For CentOS-based appliances, use the CentOS Linux 7-based version links.

    • For Oracle Linux-based appliances, use Oracle Linux 8-based version links.

  3. Follow the instructions on the Azure-Installation-Instructions-2024-06-11.pdf file.

Azure hardware requirements

More information on the Microsoft documentation website.

Appliance hosting the Portal

Max devices

Max complexity

Data disk size

Details (90 days)

Required Azure VM

5k

2,000

60 GB

60 GB

Standard_DS3_V2

10k

2,000

100 GB

120 GB

Standard_DS3_V2

20k

4,000

200 GB

220 GB

Standard_E4as_v5

50k

12,000

300 GB

450 GB

Standard_E4as_v5

100k

40,000

600 GB

700 GB

Standard_E8s_V5

150k

60,000

1 TB

1 TB

Standard_E8s_V5

Appliance hosting the Engine

Max Events

Max devices / with Web & Cloud

Max entities

Data disk size

Required Azure VM

20M

500 / 500

20

80 GB

Standard_D2s_V5

50M

3k / 2k

100

100 GB

Standard_F8s_v2

50M

5k / 3-4k

100

120 GB

Standard_F8s_v2

100M

10k / 6-8k

100

200 GB

Standard_F16s_v2

100M

10k / 6-8k

500

200 GB

Standard_F16s_v2

200M

10k / 8k

100

200 GB

Standard_F16s_v2

200M

10k / 8k

500

250 GB

Standard_F16s_v2

>200M

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Appliance hosting the Portal and the Engine

Max devices

1000

Max complexity

500

Events

20M

Required Azure VM

Standard_F8s or Standard_DS4_v2

The operations described in this article should only be performed by a Nexthink Engineer or a Nexthink Certified Partner.

If you need help or assistance, please contact your Nexthink Certified Partner.


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