Blue Coat’s ProxySG Virtual Appliance is a software version of the ProxySG Acceleration Edition. A critical component of Blue Coat’s Application Delivery Network solution, ProxySG VA provides WAN Optimization on industry standard servers for branch offices. Blue Coat ProxySG Virtual Appliance reduces bandwidth and accelerates application performance, enabling innovative branch office consolidation.
Accelerate performance of applications and reduce WAN costs From files, email and backup to video and Web applications delivered internally or as Software as-a-Service (SaaS), Blue Coat WAN Optimization speeds delivery of business applications and dramatically reduces bandwidth required.
Reduce costs via consolidation while delivering local applications and Microsoft Server 2008 services By reducing the number of servers via consolidation and eliminating backup systems by enabling centralization of storage and backup, Blue Coat helps you drastically reduce the operating and capital costs for rich branch office infrastructure.
Maintain flexibility to adapt to business with virtualized, open server platform Powerful x86 multi core server systems with excess capacity combine with virtualization to enable you to deploy almost ANY business application or service at a branch – when you need it. That allows you to adapt to changing requirements in our complex technology world.
Blue Coat ProxySG Virtual Appliance requires VMware ESX or ESXi Server v3.5 (update 3 or 4) or v4.0 and server hardware that is compatible with those VMware versions and meet the minimum specifications. To check hardware compatibility of servers, search the VMware Compatibility Guide.
Server requirements for the Virtual Appliance ALONE are as follows:
VA-5
VA-10
VA-15
VA-20
Max Link Size
2 Mbps
6 Mbps
12 Mbps
18 Mbps
Max Users
10
50
125
300
Virtual CPU (MHz)
400
1200
2400
3500*
Memory (MB)
1024
1536
2048
3072*
Disk Space (GB)
100
200
400
600
Number of Disk Drives
1
1
2
3
*2.93 GHz Nahalem Processors are equivalent for this spec
• Servers must meet minimum required specifications and:
-- Be compatible with VMware ESX/ESXi v 3.5 or 4.0 -- Assume additional 10-20% overhead to these specs for VMware -- Additional VMs require separate capacity planning
• Disk specs assume no RAID
-- Additional RAID configs available (RAID 0 recommended)
Estimated server requirements when including Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Core
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