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Hi.
Just a newbie question:
Isn't it possible to install the OSrestore image to a whitebox PC? I am out of space on my VMware SAN, so I can't make a VM with Brightmail.
/Ulrik

Ulrik,

Brightmail Gateway is only supported as either a physical appliance on an 8300 Series appliance or as a virtual appliance running on VMware ESX 3.5 or ESXi 3.5.

Angelos Kottas, Product Manager, Brightmail Gateway

OK, thanks for info, but I don't understand why it isn't possible to install it on a normal PC, when it can be installed on VMware ESX, as VMware just simulates a normal computer. Or is there somehow a built-in check in Brightmail, if Brightmail is running on a physical Symantec appliance box or a VMware VM?
I mean: one thing is what is supported, another thing is what is possible (for test purpose).
/Ulrik

VMware doesn't simulate a generic PC.  The specific hardware - network adapters, etc are configured into the image. This allows symantec to have a known design target.  Supporting any old hardware would be a headach.  And you'd get to build & support the RedHat Linux install.

If Symantec supported every whitebox in the market they would have to support some really obscure cheap stuff, and the phhowe17 nailed it, it would be a support headache.   

I'm typing away on an AMD powered box that uses a VIA chipset with a 10/100Mb NIC from also from VIA, called a Rhine II.  Then there are Nvidia NIC's, so on and so forth.

By supporting ESX (AMD based NIC from the 90's) and the Dell based config (probably an intel), they can better control the environment the product is install into.


Get a desktop and install ESXi, and see if that'll do.