Systems Requirements

Deployment Options

1. Virtual Appliance: virtualized deployments via hypervisor technologies

• Microsoft^® Hyper-V™ Virtual Appliance
• VMware Ready Virtual Appliance
  Rigorously tested and validated by VMware, the first messaging gateway solution to achieve VMware Ready validation. Supports VMware ESX or ESXi v3.5 and vSphere.

2. Software Appliance Certified by Trend Micro:

bare metal installation with tuned, security-hardened OS. Through extensive testing and validation, Trend Micro certifies platforms for compatibility with Trend Micro software appliance solutions.

See certified server platforms (PDF).

Minimum System Requirements

Server Platform Compatibility Virtual Appliances:

• VMware ESX/ESXi v3.5 and higher
• Microsoft Hyper-V Windows 2008 SP1 or Windows 2008 R2

Software Appliances:

for the latest Certified by Trend Micro platforms, go to
http://www.trendmicro.com/go/certified

Minimum Hardware Requirements

• Two Intel™ Xeon processor
• 4GB RAM
• 120GB of disk space

Recommended Hardware Requirements

• Four Intel™ Xeon processor
• 8GB RAM
• 250GB of disk space