Proventia Network Mail Security System: Model specifications

Physical Appliance Virtual Appliance

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Physical Appliance

Proventia Network Mail is certified to run natively on high quality, cost-effective IBM System x hardware as a physical appliance. Select the hardware that best suits your needs based on price versus throughput requirements.

	Economy	Value	Scale	Performance
IBM xSeries	x3250 M2	x3350	x3550 M2	x3650 M2
Processor / speed / cache	1x Intel Xeon Processor 3300 / 2.66GHz / 6MB	1x Intel Xeon Processor E3120 / 3.15GHz / 6MB	1x Intel Xeon Processor E5502 2C / 1.86GHz / 4MB	2x Intel Xeon Processor E5502 2C / 1.86GHz / 4MB
Total memory / type	3GB /DDR2	4GB /DDR2	4GB /DDR3	4GB /DDR3
Optical device	1x DVD /CD-RW Combo	1x DVD /CD-RW Combo	1x DVD /CD-RW Combo	1x DVD /CD-RW Combo
Controller		1x IBM 3Gb SAS HBA	1x ServerRAID -MR10i SAS/SATA	1x ServerRAID -MR10i SAS/SATA
Storage	1x 250GB 7.2k RPM 3.5” SATA	2x 300GB 10k 6Gbps SAS 2.5”	2x 300GB 10k 6Gbps SAS 2.5”	4x 73GB 15k 6Gbps SAS 2.5” 2x 300GB 10k 6Gbps SAS 2.5”
Redundancy		1x 450W power supply	1x 675W power supply	1x 675W power supply
Rack form factor	1U	1U	1U	2U
Limited warranty	One year parts and labor	One year parts and labor	Three years parts and labor	Three years parts and labor
Throughput / emails /p. Hour	115K	180K	250K	360K

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Virtual Appliance

Proventia Network Mail Security System is certified to run on VMware® as a virtual appliance. Ideally suited for small to midsize business and scalable to more strategic operating specifications as required, depending on the host hardware configuration.

Platform :	One of the following VMware Server 1.0.2 or later VMware Workstation 5.5 or later VMware Player 1.0.3 or later VMware ESX 3.x or later
Host Hardware
Total Memory (virtual memory)	2GB RAM (1GB minimum required for each Proventia Network Mail virtual instance)
Total Storage (virtual storage)	100GB hard disk space (50GB dedicated for each Proventia Network Mail virtual instance)
Optical Device	DVD ROM
Network Cards Two Network Interfaces	- One host only interface - One bridged network interface

*See the Proventia Network Mail datasheet (89KB) for full details.

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