Before you deploy Splunk AppDynamics On-Premises Virtual Appliance, review the following requirements for the components and prepare the host. 

Sizing Requirements

Virtual Appliance requires three virtual machines. The following table shows Virtual Appliance installation profiles for each virtual machine:

ProfileSpecificationMax AgentsMax Metrics/MinuteEUM BeaconsSynthetic Sessions
BrowserMobile
Demo

16 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM

50 Java Agents

10000

1000

1000

1000

Small

16 vCPUs, 64 GB RAM, 200 GB OS Disk, and 500 GB SSD Data Disk

1500

250,000

8000

15000

7500

Medium

32 vCPUs, 128 GB RAM, 200 GB OS Disk, and 3 TB SSD Data Disk

3500

600,000

20000

40000

15000

Large

64 vCPUs, 256 GB RAM, 200 GB OS Disk, and 5 TB SSD Data Disk

  • 10000 Java Agents
  • 1000 Machine Agents
  • 5 Cluster Agents

1,850,000

40000

80000

30000

ProfileSpecificationMax AgentsMax Metrics/MinuteEUM BeaconsSynthetic Sessions
BrowserMobile
Small

16 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM, 200 GB OS Disk, and 500 GB SSD Data Disk

2000

1,000,000

10000

20000

7500

Medium

32 vCPUs, 64 GB RAM, 200 GB OS Disk, and 3 TB SSD Data Disk

7500

2,000,000

20000

40000

15000

Large

64 vCPUs, 256 GB RAM, 200 GB OS Disk, and 2 TB SSD Data Disk

  • 20000 Java Agents
  • 2000 Machine Agents

4,000,000

40000

80000

30000

Splunk AppDynamics recommends your hosts have the capacity to run additional three virtual machines.

Prerequisites

Make sure the following prerequisites are met:

  • Physical server(s) to host virtual machines.
  • VMWare ESXi and vSphere version >= 7.0.
  • DNS IP, Gateway IP, and three host IP addresses.
  • For the hybrid deployment, you must be using Controller >= 24.2.2.
  • Familiarize with Virtual Appliance CLI commands. See Virtual Appliance CLI.

Deploy Cisco AppDynamics On-Premises Virtual Appliance

Complete the following steps to deploy Virtual Appliance:

1

Download the OVA from the Downloads portal.

Virtual Appliance is packaged in the OVA format. 


2

Deploy an OVF template and create three virtual machines.

You can review and update the parameters in the helm file. For more information about the helm file parameters, see Customize the Helm File.
3

Install Cisco AppDynamics Services as containers in the Standard Deployment

1

Download the OVA from the Downloads portal.

Virtual Appliance is packaged in the OVA format. 


2
Deploy an OVF template and create three virtual machines.
You can review and update the parameters in the helm file. For more information about the helm file parameters, see Customize the Helm File.
3

Install Cisco AppDynamics Services in the Hybrid Deployment.