Running Alien Vault USM in GCP

[prasad nair]

Hi, 

I am planning to host Alienvault USM image (VMDK file ) in to GCP and a couple of sample webservers and database servers too. Alien vault iso image requires a minimum of 16 GB RAM and 1 TB hard disks with 8 core cpu. Is it feasible to run it on the GCP ? 

Regards,

Prasad

[Karthick (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hello Prasad

Yes, this can be  possible. You can import images as per the listed steps in Importing Boot Disk Images.  In the same article, it is stated that the image must be “disk.raw”

You should able to convert vmdk to .raw format using tools like qemu-img and compress the file to .tar.gz and later creating custom image by following instructions.

As per the hardware capacity,  it is not a problem. You can customize a machine type or choose from one of the predefined ones. Details can be found here.