A single virtual machine (VM) image runs on
the WildFire appliance; when you
Upgrade the WildFire Appliance
Software, you can choose for the WildFire appliance to use
the VM image that most reflects your network environment. Each available
VM image represents a single operating system and supports several
different analysis environments based on that operating system.
You can now dedicate all analysis environments to support certain
file types: either documents (Microsoft Office files and PDFs) or
portable executables (PEs). This feature is helpful if you are using
the WildFire appliance to analyze specific file types; for example,
if you’ve deployed a
WildFire hybrid cloud to
analyze documents locally and PEs in the WildFire global cloud.
In this case, you could dedicate all analysis environments to documents.
Previously, analysis environments were statically allocated and
the resources available for document and executable analysis were
evenly divided; you could not adjust the allocation of analysis
resources even when the WildFire appliance was configured to analyze
only one type of file.