To ease deployment, the Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Vx units are available as prebuilt OVA images that can be imported into your VMware hypervisor. You do not need to create or configure a virtual machine (VM). Before deploying the CloudGen Firewall Vx unit, verify that the host system meets the minimum storage requirements and review the resource recommendations for the production system. You can deploy the firewall using either the VMware vSphere Client or the VMware OVF Tool (ovftool).
Before You Begin
- For information regarding the sizing of your CPU, disk, and RAM, see Virtual Systems (Vx).
- Before you start the Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Vx for the first time, assign a manual MAC address to the first virtual network interface. This lets you move the VM later without invalidating your license. For more information, see Best Practice - Performance Tuning on VMware Hypervisors.
- Download the VMware OVA image from the Barracuda Download Portal.
Use the VMware vSphere Client
Step 1. Download and Import the OVA Image
- Download the OVA image for your CloudGen Firewall or Firewall Control Center from your Barracuda Networks Account.
- Connect to your VMware hypervisor using the vSphere client.
- Click File > Deploy OVF Template.
- In the deployment wizard, click Browse and select the OVA image. Click Next to proceed.
- Enter a name for the virtual machine to be created. Click Next to proceed.
Select the datastore that the CloudGen Firewall Vx unit should be installed on.
- Map to the required network in your existing inventory and then click Next to proceed.
- After the deployment wizard summarizes all your settings, click Finish to start the deployment process. After successful deployment, the Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Vx unit is displayed in your VMware hypervisor inventory list.
- Select the CloudGen Firewall Vx unit from the list on the left and edit settings such as Disk Provisioning with appropriate values.
Step 2. Set the Management IP Address
- Start the VM and click the Console tab of the virtual machine.
The Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Vx unit boots.
For a basic network configuration, the CloudGen Firewall unit launches the Active Recovery Technology menu.
- Select Basic Configuration, enter the following network settings, and then press F3 to save your changes:
- Hostname – The desired hostname for your firewall.
- Management IP – The IP address that your firewall should be reachable through.
- Netmask – The subnet mask in dotted quad notation. For example,
255.255.255.0
. - Default Gateway – The IP address of the next hop device that serves as an access point to another network.
- When the window opens to announce that your configuration changes were saved, press any key to continue.
- Select Reboot to restart the Barracuda CloudGen Firewall with the new network configuration.
Use the VMware OVF Tool
- Download the VMware OVF Tool from vmware.com. Use the following command:
ovftool -datastore=datastorename ovaimage vi://server-ip
where:-
datastore
– The name for the data store. -
ovaimage
– The path and name of the OVA file. -
server-ip
– The IP address for the virtual appliance.
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- Configure the resources pool and the network mapping within the VMware virtual machine settings.
- Using Barracuda Firewall Admin, connect to the virtual appliance for configuration.
Next Step
After you deploy the Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Vx unit, continue with Get Started and optionally Best Practice - Performance Tuning on VMware Hypervisors.