Get Started with On-Premises Virtual Appliance

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

Sizing Requirements

The following table shows Virtual Appliance installation profiles for each virtual machine:

Standard Deployment
ProfileSpecificationMin Node CountMax AgentsMax Metrics/MinuteEUM BeaconsSynthetic Sessions
BrowserMobile
Demo

16 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM

1

50 Java Agents

10000

1000

1000

1000

Small

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

3

1500

250,000

8000

15000

7500

Medium

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

3

3500

600,000

20000

40000

15000

Large

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

3

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

1,850,000

40000

80000

30000

Hybrid Deployment
ProfileSpecificationMin Node CountMax AgentsMax Metrics/MinuteEUM BeaconsSynthetic Sessions
BrowserMobile
Demo

16 vCPUs, 32 GB RAM

1

50 Java Agents

10000

1000

1000

1000

Small

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

3

2000

1,000,000

10000

20000

7500

Medium

32 vCPUs, 64 GB RAM, 200 GB OS Disk, and 1 TB SSD Data Disk

3

7500

2,000,000

20000

40000

15000

Large

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

3
  • 20000 Java Agents
  • 2000 Machine Agents

4,000,000

40000

80000

30000

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

Prerequisites

Make sure the following prerequisites are met:

VMware vSphere
  • 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.
Microsoft Azure
  • An Azure account to deploy virtual machines.
  • Controller is >=24.2.2 for the hybrid deployment.
VMware ESXi
  • Physical server(s) to host virtual machines.
  • VMWare ESXi >= 7.0.
  • DNS IP, Gateway IP, and three host IP addresses.
  • For the hybrid deployment, you must be using Controller >= 24.7.0.
AWS
  • An AWS account to deploy virtual machines.
  • Controller is >=24.2.2 for the hybrid deployment.
Note: Familiarize with Virtual Appliance CLI commands. See Virtual Appliance CLI.

Deploy Splunk AppDynamics On-Premises Virtual Appliance

Complete the following steps to deploy Virtual Appliance:

Standard Deployment
1

Download the required image from the Downloads portal.

Note: Virtual Appliance is packaged in the OVA, VHD, and AMI formats. Choose the required format depending on your hypervisor type.
2

Deploy Splunk AppDynamics On-Premises Virtual Appliance

Note: 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 Splunk AppDynamics Services as containers in the Standard Deployment

Hybrid Deployment
1

Download the required image from the Downloads portal.

Note: Virtual Appliance is packaged in the OVA, VHD, and AMI formats. Choose the required format depending on your hypervisor type.
2

Deploy Splunk AppDynamics On-Premises Virtual Appliance

Note: 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 Splunk AppDynamics Services in the Hybrid Deployment.