The current XG Series appliances offer the following new redundancy features: What to do now? Whether you’re using XG Firewall today or thinking of switching to an XG Series appliance from your Cyberoam or Sophos SG UTM platform, the investment in a newer firewall appliance makes a lot of sense.
You can deploy an XG Firewall OVF image in a VMware environment.
Sophos XG 86 & XG 86W Firewalls Sophos XG Firewall brings a fresh new approach to the way you manage your firewall, respond to threats, and monitor what’s happening on your network. Refer to Sophos XG Firewall: How to re-image the applianceor do a search online on how to burn to flash media, if needed. Install the.isofile to the SG appliance by connecting the USB memory stick to the SG appliance, along with a keyboard (USB) and monitor (VGA), and then reboot the UTM. Upon reboot, the installer will start automatically. The new XGS Series appliances release with Sophos Firewall OS v18.5, have a new simplified licensing scheme, and as if that wasn’t enough, we’re also changing the overall product name from Sophos XG Firewall to Sophos Firewall. Dual Processor Architecture. Connect to the XG from the CLI. Refer to Sophos XG Firewall: How to setup a Serial connection with a console cable; Verify if the appliance access is disabled by running the following command from the console: system applianceaccess show; If the appliance access is disabled, we need to enable it with the following command. System appliance.
- Go to XG Firewall free trial and download the .zip file containing the XG Firewall OVF image. Extract and save the image on the device that has the vSphere client installed.
- To deploy the OVF image, follow these steps:
- Use the vSphere client to sign in to the VMware host server using its IP address, username, and password.
- Go to File and select Deploy OVF Template.
- Select the file sf_virtual and select Open. When the file path opens in the vSphere client, select Next.
- Verify the OVF template details.
- Specify a name and location for the OVF template.
- Select the host or cluster within which you want to deploy the OVF template.
This image shows deployment on a standalone server. Configuration can differ in cluster environments.
- Select the storage format to install the OVF template:
- Thick Provision Lazy Zeroed: Space required for the virtual disk is allocated during disk creation. Data remaining on the physical device is not erased during creation, but is zeroed out on demand later on first write from the virtual machine. You can’t convert this disk to a thin disk.
- Thick Provision Eager Zeroed: Supports clustering features such as Fault Tolerance (FT). Space required for the virtual disk is allocated at the time of creation. Data remaining on the physical device is zeroed out when the virtual disk is created. May take longer to create disks in this format.
- Thin Provision: Minimum space required. Use this format to save storage space.
For details, go to VMware disk provisioning policies.
- Select the networks to be used by the OVF template.
- Verify the deployment settings and select Finish.
XG Firewall will be installed on the server.
- Configure XG Firewall.
- Right-click XG Firewall. Select Power and then select Power on.
- Enter the administrator password admin. The Main menu appears.
- From the management device, go to https://172.16.16.16.
- Select Start to open the wizard and complete the basic configuration.CAUTION The wizard will not start if you’ve changed the default password from the console.
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