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Contents
Introduction . . . 5
About Virtual Barracuda NG Firewall Appliances. . . . 5
Host System Technical Prerequisites. . . . 5
Deployment. . . 7
Deployment Using vSphere Client . . . . 7
5 Introduction
Introduction
About Virtual Barracuda NG Firewall Appliances
A virtual Barracuda NG Firewall appliance is a pre-installed and pre-configured Barracuda NG Firewall system contained within a VMWare virtual machine.
Only a few deployment and configuration steps are necessary in order to get such a virtual appliance up and running on a host PC.
Host System Technical Prerequisites
Table 1–1 Minimum Prerequisites
Virtual Appliance Type Minimum Host System Prerequisites
VF50, VF100, VF250, VF500, VF1000 15 GB of free HDD space, single CPU core, 2 GB RAM, x86-64 capable VC400 20 GB of free HDD space, 2 CPU cores, 2 GB RAM, x86-64 capable VC610 20 GBof free HDD space, 4 CPU cores, 4 GB RAM, x86-64 capable VC820 20 GB of free HDD space, 4 CPU cores, 8 GB RAM, x86-64 capable
The host system prerequisites are considered minimum to unpack the OVA file and to run the system.
Table 1–2 Additional Production Host System Prerequeisites
Virtual Appliance Type Production Host System Prerequisites
VF50, VF100, VF250, VF500, VF1000 80 GB of free HDD space VC400 250 GB of free HDD space VC610, VC820 500 GBof free HDD space
Starting with Barracuda NG Firewall 4.2.13, OVA images for VMWare were made available. OVA images based on minor release 4.2.13 have a bug which might lead to loss of the current network configuration when updating to Barracuda NG Firewall minor releases 4.2.14 or 5.0.1.
To avoid a loss of the network configuration, please make sure to configure your network settings before updating virtual appliances based on 4.2.13 OVA images to 4.2.14 or 5.0.1 using Barracuda NG Admin at least once. Also, a network activation is required.
In order to move a Barracuda NG Firewall system from one virtual machine to another, the MAC addresses of the network interfaces within the VM must stay the same.
Therefore, Barracuda Networks generally recommends to configure static MAC addresses for all NICs within virtual machines.
Barracuda Networks recommends to meet the additional prerequisites as listed above for all production purposes.
Please consult the VMWare documentation available at www.vmware.com for in-depth information on everything concerning VMWare itself.
7 Deployment
Deployment
Deployment Using vSphere Client
Step 1
Open the vSphere client and connect to the VMWare server.
Step 2
From the File menu, choose Deploy OVF Template...
If not already set, choose *.ova as file extension to display. Then select the folder in which the virtual appliance image is stored and select the OVA file you wish to deploy.
Fig. 1 OVA Deployment Dialog
Step 3
Push the Next button until the Resource Pool dialog is displayed. There, select the location for the virtual machine to be deployed to and, on the next screen, the data store to store the files in.
Step 4
Within the Network Mapping section, you need to configure the destination network into which the virtual appliance is to be mapped.
Step 5
Click the Finish button. Subsequently, start the newly installed and configured virtual appliance by double-clicking within the list of virtual machines on the left side of the vSphere application window.
Step 6
If necessary, change into the Console tab within vSphere. You will note that the virtual appliance is booting.
9 Deployment
In order for the virtual appliance to become basically operational, you need to fill-in the basic configuration settings.
To do so, choose the Basic Configuration menu item using your keyboard.
The deployment process is now finished. You may now connect to the virtual appliance using Barracuda NG Admin in order to configure it.
Fig. 3 Basic Configuration Settings
The VMWare Tools are currently not working within Barracuda NG Firewall virtual appliances.
Deployment Using ovftool
Step 1
Download ovftool from www.vmware.com.
Step 2
Use the following command:
ovftool -datastore=<datastorename> <ovaimage> vi://<server-ip>
wherein datastorename is the name for the data store, ovaimage is path and name of the OVA image file and server-ip the IP address for the virtual appliance.
Step 3
Configure the resources pool and the network mapping for your virtual appliance within the VMWare virtual machine settings.
You may now connect to the virtual appliance using Barracuda NG Admin in order to configure it.
