User manual BARRACUDA VF500 REVISION 1.1 INSTALLATION GUIDE

[. . . ] Virtual Appliance Installation Guide Barracuda NG Firewall VC400, VC610, VC820, VF50, VF100, VF250, VF500, and VF1000 Revision 1. 1 Barracuda Networks Inc. [. . . ] 5 About Virtual Barracuda NG Firewall Appliances. 9 3 4 Barracuda NG Firewall VMWare Quick Start Guide 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 1­1 Minimum Prerequisites Virtual Appliance Type VF50, VF100, VF250, VF500, VF1000 VC400 VC610 VC820 Minimum Host System Prerequisites 15 GB of free HDD space, single CPU core, 2 GB RAM 20 GB of free HDD space, 2 CPU cores, 2 GB RAM 20 GBof free HDD space, 4 CPU cores, 4 GB RAM 20 GB of free HDD space, 4 CPU cores, 8 GB RAM The host system prerequisites are considered minimum to unpack the OVA file and to run the system. Table 1­2 Additional Production Host System Prerequeisites Virtual Appliance Type VF50, VF100, VF250, VF500, VF1000 VC400 VC610, VC820 Production Host System Prerequisites 80 GB of free HDD space 250 GB of free HDD space 500 GBof free HDD space 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. 5 Introduction 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 6 Deployment 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. Fig. 2 Network Mapping. Step 5 Click the Finish button. [. . . ] You may now connect to the virtual appliance using Barracuda NG Admin in order to configure it. See the Barracuda NG Firewall Administrator's Guide for in-depth information about configuring your system. 9 Deployment [. . . ]