Installing CT-VL on Bare Metal

Although typically deployed as a virtual machine, the CipherTrust Vaultless Tokenization (CT-VL) server can be installed using an ISO image and run on a bare metal machine.

A bare metal host is a computer that does not run hypervisor software. Do not install the operating system on the host before installing CT-VL, because the OS is included along with the CT-VL software in the installation package. When selecting the operating system, specify 64-bit CENTOS version 7 or higher.

Prerequisites for Installing CT-VL on Bare Metal

• Intel x86_64 physical machine.

• Number of CPU cores: 4.

• RAM: 16 GB minimum if RANDOM mode is none. 24 GB recommended if CT-VL will be used to tokenize credit card numbers longer than 16 digits. 24 GB if using numeric RANDOM mode or alphanumeric RANDOM mode, or 32 GB if using both modes.

• Hard disk space: 85 GB.

Installation Steps

To do a bare metal installation:

1. Obtain the installation file ctvl-<release>.iso.

2. Refer to the machine's documentation on how to boot and install from an ISO image.