The Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance with the software for Carbon Black Cloud Workload Plug-in is all bundled in a single Open Virtualization Appliance (OVA) that is used for the complete installation. You must download the Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance OVA for installation.

You can download the Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance OVA from the VMware Downloads page.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the VMware Customer Connect portal.
    For information about creating a Customer Connect profile, see KB 2007005. For information about inviting a user to an account in Customer Connect, see KB 2070555.
  2. Go to the VMware downloads page at https://customerconnect.vmware.com/downloads.
  3. Select Endpoint & Workload Security from the All Products drop-down menu.
  4. Download the OVA to a local datastore or a local web server.

    The OVA filename has the following format cwp-va-<release-number>-<build-number>_OVF10.ova. For example, cwp-va-1.0.0.0-17066560_OVF10.ova.

  5. Copy the file path of the Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance OVA file.
    For example, http://<local-web-server>/cwp-va-1.0.0.0-17066560_OVF10.ova, if you downloaded the OVA file to a local web server. You provide this path while deploying the appliance.

Results

The Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance OVA file is available.

What to do next

Deploy and configure the Carbon Black Cloud Workload appliance.