VMWare Operating System?

[Sazerak]

Version

2.4.30

Installation Method

Security Onion ISO image

Description

installation

Installation Type

Distributed

Location

on-prem with Internet access

Hardware Specs

Exceeds minimum requirements

CPU

24

RAM

256

Storage for /

1TB

Storage for /nsm

2TB

Network Traffic Collection

tap

Network Traffic Speeds

1Gbps to 10Gbps

Status

Yes, all services on all nodes are running OK

Salt Status

No, there are no failures

Logs

No, there are no additional clues

Detail

I'm about to upgrade from 2.3 to 2.4 and noticed that the docs still say to chose CentOS 64-Bit as the operating system https://docs.securityonion.net/en/2.4/vmware.html (Step 4 of Workstation Pro and Step 4 of Fusion). Is this a mistake? My understanding is that 2.4 is built using Oracle Linux 9 which under the hood is RHEL 9. VMWare products have the option to chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 (64-bit) as an option, so wouldn't that be more appropriate?

Guidelines

• I have read the above statement and can confirm my post is relevant to Security Onion 2.4.

[dougburks]

It shouldn't really make any difference whether you choose RHEL 9 or Oracle Linux 9 as long as CPU, RAM, etc. settings are correct. However, I went ahead and updated the documentation to avoid the question in the future:
https://docs.securityonion.net/en/2.4/vmware.html