Data Center Expert server equivalent configurations for VM

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The virtual appliance equivalent configurations are based on Basic, Standard, and Enterprise server hardware configurations.

Use the DCE sizing guide to determine the hardware resources necessary for a virtual appliance to monitor a given number of device nodes.

Note: VMware ESXi versions older than 6.7 support fault tolerance on virtual machines with 1 CPU only. Please refer to your vendor's documentation for more information about fault tolerance.

Hardware Server	Virtual Appliance Equivalent SNMPv1 and Modbus	Virtual Appliance Equivalent SNMPv3
Data Center Expert   Basic	Up to 500 device nodes supported  4 GB RAM  4 CPU	Up to 125 device nodes supported  4 GB RAM  4 CPU
Data Center Expert   Standard	Up to 2000 device nodes supported  8 GB RAM  8 CPU	Up to 500 device nodes supported  8 GB RAM  8 CPU
Data Center Expert   Enterprise	Up to 4000 device nodes supported  16 GB RAM  16 CPU	Up to 1000 device nodes supported  16 GB RAM  16 CPU

See Minimum and maximum Data Center Expert virtual appliance configurations