How do I deploy a Virtual Canary?

How to deploy a Virtual Canary on VMware ESXi to monitor your virtual infrastructure, guiding you through downloading the OVA, importing and configuring the VM, and connecting it to your Canary Console for real-time detection of suspicious activity.

Canaries aren't just Hardware devices. You can run Canaries inside your Virtual infrastructure, using the same Console as always.

Requirements

All that's needed for a fully functioning bird:

• Disk space larger than 10GB
• 2GB memory
• Single CPU core

Virtual Platforms we support

You can deploy a Virtual Canary on:

• Hyper-V
• OpenStack
• Nutanix
• VMware vSphere
• VMware ESXi
• VirtualBox (not recommended for production deployments)

Commonly asked questions:

• Where do I find my Virtual Canary password?
• How do I set up a static IP on my Virtual Canary?
• How do I configure my Virtual Canary?