Your only limitation will be access to hardware like wireless cards and other real hardware. On 7 Dec 2010 21:21, "Ron Gula" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/7/2010 7:16 AM, Cody Dumont wrote: >> Greeting All, >> >> I have heard Paul talk about using Nessus in a VM many times, and I know >> that if you run Nessus in a VM you eventually run into limitations of >> the VM software. Can you tell me what the limitations are. The three >> computers I will be running Nesuss in a VM all have Quad Core CPU with >> at least 8 GB of RAM. So there should not be an issue of hard that >> could support Nessus if installed directly on the system. >> > > Tenable offers a VM appliance which has Nessus on it to ProfessionalFeed > customers. > > Aside from that, Nessus is just like any other application and if you > don't give it enough disk space, cpu or memory you'll impact performance. > > Having said that, we have a lot of customers that run stand-alone Nessus > scanners with 1GB of memory. We also have some customers that deploy > Nessus on 4GB, 8GB, .. 16GB systems to scan multiple ClassBs, perform > 100s of web apps at the same time, perform 1000s of scans for an MSP > offering, .etc. > > I do a lot of testing of Nessus and our SecurityCenter product and tend > to run them both in VMs or Amazon instances with 2GB of memory and > regularly scans ClassBs, do web app audits, .etc. > > -- > Ron Gula, CEO > Tenable Network Security > http://www.tenable.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
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