Requirements
- Dominik Karch
- Thomas Sikora
The following information should be used before installing BVQ 
Create a suitable VM
Choose the operating system
Prepare a Windows user
Adjust your firewall
Modify your virus scanner
Add BVQ° to the whitelist of your ad blocker
Make sure the VM has an appropriate browser
| Mozilla Firefox |
| Google Chrome |
| Apple Safari |
| Microsoft Edge |
BVQ 2024 H1.x
| Operating System | BVQ DB Server | BVQ Server | Consolidated (DB + Server + Client) | BVQ client workstation (GUI) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windows Server 2022 | | | | |
| Windows Server 2019 | | | | |
| Windows 10 64Bit | | |||
| Windows 11 64Bit | |
Server | CPU | RAM | HDD C: (free) | For BVQ database recommended on free HDD D: |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Small sized | 3 GHz, 2 cores | 6 GB | 10 GB | 20 GB |
| Medium Sizes | 3 GHz, 4 cores | 12 GB | 20 GB | 120 GB |
| Large Size | 3 GHz, 12 cores | 48 GB | 120 GB | 800 GB |
BVQ GUI client workstation | 3 GHz, 4 cores | 16 GB | - | – |
Calculate S, M, L depending on your Environment
as example, just one M or L result means, that we need a M or L size server.
VMware vSphere
Environment dimensions
The following categories of environmental dimensions can be managed in a single BVQ instance:
Object | Small | Medium | Large | Max |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vCenter | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| VMs | 50 | 250 | 2.500 | 5.000 |
| VM virtual disks | 100 | 500 | 5.000 | 10.000 |
| VM SCSI LUNs | 100 | 250 | 2.500 | 5.000 |
| VM datastores | 100 | 250 | 2.500 | 5.000 |
SAN
Environment dimensions
The following size categories can be managed in a single BVQ instance. This is true for both SAN platforms, Brocade and Cisco:
Object | Small | Medium | Large | Max |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SAN SMI Provider | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| SAN Switches | 4 | 16 | 64 | 256 |
| SAN Switch ports | 128 | 512 | 2048 | 8192 |
| SAN Node ports | 128 | 512 | 2048 | 8192 |
| Zones | 50 | 200 | 800 | 3000 |
Storage
Environment dimensions
The number of managed objects is crucial for the dimension of the BVQ server resources. The following size categories can frequently be observed and can be managed in a single BVQ instance:
Objekt | Small | Medium | Large | Max |
|---|---|---|---|---|
VDisks | 250 | 1.000 | 10.000 | 20.000 |
MDisks | 60 | 250 | 2.500 | 5.000 |
Cluster | 2 | 5 | 10 | 30 |
Hosts | 25 | 100 | 1.000 | 2.000 |
BVQ Server requires access through several ports for communication between scanners and scanned systems and its database.
The following connections are required:
| Connection Type | Standard TCP port | BVQ Server | BVQ Client | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RDP to BVQ Client | 3389 | ← | → | Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol for remote screen sessions |
| Internet | N/A |  → | → | Connection to the Internet for remote maintenance or code-download |
| SSH to IBM SVC/Storwize/FlashSystem | 22 | → | → | Secure shell access to the SVC CLI interface |
| HTTPS to EMC Dell Unity | 443 | → | Web service with HTTPS on Unity System API | |
| HTTPS to VMware vCenter | 443 |
| Web service with HTTPS on VMware vCenter API | |
| HTTPS to IBM HMC (PowerVM) | 12443 | → | Web service with HTTPS on PowerVM HMC API | |
| HTTPS to NetApp | 443 | → | Web service with HTTPS on NetApp ONTAP System API | |
| HTTPS to Brocade SAN switch | 443 | → | Web service with HTTPS on Brocade SAN switch API | |
| HTTPS to Cisco MDS switch | 8443 | → | Web service with HTTPS on Cisco SAN switch API | |
| HTTPS to K8s API | 6443 | → | Web service with HTTPS on Kubernetes API | |
| HTTPS to K8s Prometheus | 9000 | → | Web service with HTTPS on Kubernetes Prometheus | |
| SMI provider to BNA | 5989 | → | SMI interface to Brocade Network Advisor | |
| MongoDB | 27017 | ←→ | → | Access to MongoDB (BVQ Expert GUI, MongoDB Compass, ...) |
| BVQ Server Web UI | 80 | ← | → | Access to BVQ Server Web UI |
| BVQ Server Grafana | 3000 | ← | → | Access to BVQ Grafana Web UI |
| BVQ SSH Server (AIX OS Agent) | 2222 | ← | BVQ SSH server which is used to receive data from OS instances |
Legend: mandatory connection, optional connection, → outgoing connection, ← incoming connection
to exclude the following Directory:
%ProgramData%\SVA\BVQ\*
A detailed explanation of each folder is also available:
Directory & file excludes for Antivirus software
- Create a Windows User called bvq and add this user to the Administrator group
- Please do not name the "server" bvq