Centrify DirectControl - Cerberis

• • • • • • Using a virtual environment to evaluate DirectControlUsing a virtual environment to evaluate DirectControlTo simplify the hardware requirements for testing the CentrifyDirectControl Suite, you may find it useful to set up your ownevaluation environment using either Microsoft Virtual PC orVMware Workstation. By using Virtual PC or VMware, you cancreate a virtual environment to simulate three physical computersrunning different operating systems.To set up a virtual environment for evaluating CentrifyDirectControl, you need a computer with enough CPU, RAM, andavailable disk space to run three virtual machines simultaneously.Centrify recommends the following minimum configuration:• CPU: 1.70 GHz• RAM: 1.5 GB• Available disk space: 15 GBThe virtual environment should also be configured to run as anisolated evaluation environment using Local/Host-only orShared/NAT networking.To set up the virtual environment for evaluating CentrifyDirectControl, configure three virtual machine instances asfollows:• Create one Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server2008 virtual machine image with 256-384 MB RAM, a 4 GBdisk image, and using a network address translation (NAT)network connection.• Create one Windows XP virtual machine image with 128-256MB RAM, a 4 GB disk image, and using a network addresstranslation (NAT) network connection• Create one Red Hat Linux virtual machine image with256-384 MB RAM, a 4 GB disk image, and using a networkaddress translation (NAT) network connection.32 Evaluation Guide