QRadar EDR system requirements

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To ensure that IBM® Security QRadar® EDR works correctly, you must meet or exceed the minimum requirements on your Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform cluster.

Important: These requirements are for one instance of QRadar EDR running on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. Do not install anything other than QRadar EDR on your cluster.

Linux® 64-bit (x86_64) systems
Tip: QRadar EDR includes support for huge pages. The huge pages feature makes it possible for the operating system to support memory pages greater than the default, which is usually 4 KB.
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12.x , or 4.14.x installed by a user with cluster administrator permissions. For more information, see Setting up Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform clusters.
Hardware requirements
Storage requirements
Security considerations
Domain name and TLS certificates
The user who installs QRadar EDR must have cluster administrator permissions.
Multi-zone and single-zone deployments, where appropriate storage providers are available to support that deployment model.

Network requirements

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform must have access to the URLs listed in Configuring your firewall for OpenShift Container Platform.

QRadar EDR requires access to the following URLs.

cp.icr.io
icr.io
registry.redhat.io
registry.access.redhat.com
.quay.io
.docker.io
access.redhat.com
api.openshift.com
www.ibm.com
cdn.reaqta.cloud
feeder.reaqta.io

You can install QRadar EDR on a cluster that uses a cluster-wide HTTPS proxy. For more information about setting up a cluster-wide proxy, see Configuring a cluster-wide HTTPS proxy.

Supported providers

QRadar EDR deployment is verified on the following VMware platform clusters:

VMware

To deploy QRadar EDR, the following VMWare requirements must be met:

VMware vSphere version 7.0 Update 2 or later
vCenter 7.0 Update 2 or later
Virtual machines of hardware version 15 or later

Important: Deploying QRadar EDR alongside existing anti-virus solutions might cause technical issues. The configuration must be thoroughly tested before production.