Deployment Options

Software

Nessus is available as software on a wide variety of platforms. You can choose from Windows, Apple Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD and Oracle Solaris as a free download. In addition, you should also download our free iPhone or Android App for Nessus to access your Nessus scanner on the road. 

Virtual Appliance

A Tenable Nessus ProfessionalFeed subscription gives access to the Tenable Support Portal, which contains downloads of a Nessus VMware Virtual Appliance, that works with VMware ESX, Server, Workstation and Fusion. The appliance image allows for rapid deployments and effortless management of Nessus scanners in virtual environments. Users do not need to concern themselves with managing an operating system and can focus on managing their scanner configurations, operation and performance.

Hardware Appliance

Tenable also offers Nessus on a variety of dedicated hardware appliances with the same web-based management interface from the virtual appliance. The hardware appliance allows for rapid provisioning of multiple Nessus scanners and high performance scanning.

Pricing

For more information on pricing, please contact us (Hardware appliance is only available in the US). For technical information, the Tenable Appliance Guide is also available online.