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  • 1.  Installing Carbon Black on NSX-T and EDGE Nodes

    Posted Jul 27, 2022 08:46 PM

    Does VMWare allow you to install agents (i.e. Carbon Black) on NSX-T and EDGE nodes?



  • 2.  RE: Installing Carbon Black on NSX-T and EDGE Nodes

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Jul 28, 2022 05:13 AM

    It is not supported. May I know what is the use case? 



  • 3.  RE: Installing Carbon Black on NSX-T and EDGE Nodes

    Posted Jul 29, 2022 02:00 PM

    The Security Team here has licensed Carbon Black, and is trying to get it installed pretty much everwhere. Since the NSX-T nodes run Ubuntu Linux, they wanted us to install it on those. But - when we tried to install it, we noticed that we could not install the kernel headers (which it needs because it compiles kernel modules).  So I presume VMWare does not want you installing packages on these nodes, or, in this case, agents such as Carbon Black.

    But, since VMWare owns Carbon Black, I would have thought it would be inherently supported.



  • 4.  RE: Installing Carbon Black on NSX-T and EDGE Nodes

    Posted Jul 30, 2022 12:17 AM

    VMware does not support any modifications or customizations on appliances.

    https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2090839