Cloud OSS - Cloudworks Service Manager | How to create a Cloud Gateway (CGW) Template in VMWare |
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Introduction
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Downloading the pfSense 2.2 image
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See also: 3 Creating a Cloud Gateway Virtual Machine 5 Installing and Configuring VMWare Tools on pfSense 2.2 (64-bit) 6 Creating a VM Template based on the Cloud Gateway Virtual Machine |
The pfSense 2.2 installation image can be downloaded by using this link.
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Later on, the uncompressed .ISO image will have to be uploaded to a VMWare datastore.
Creating a Cloud Gateway Virtual Machine
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See also: 2 Downloading the pfSense 2.2 image 5 Installing and Configuring VMWare Tools on pfSense 2.2 (64-bit) 6 Creating a VM Template based on the Cloud Gateway Virtual Machine |
1) Open VMWare vSphere Client and login.
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Fig 33. Starting the VM
Installing pfSense
34) Now we have opened VM console.
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removeNotAllowedItems($system_menu, $menuAllowedItems);
removeNotAllowedItems($interfaces_menu, $menuAllowedItems);
removeNotAllowedItems($firewall_menu, $menuAllowedItems);
removeNotAllowedItems($services_menu, $menuAllowedItems);
removeNotAllowedItems($vpn_menu, $menuAllowedItems);
removeNotAllowedItems($status_menu, $menuAllowedItems);
removeNotAllowedItems($diagnostics_menu, $menuAllowedItems);
This can be done by using WinSCP (click here to download) for accessing pfSense via SFTP. You may use Notepad++ editor or any other editor that you prefer.
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Installing and Configuring VMWare Tools on pfSense 2.2 (64-bit)
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See also: 2 Downloading the pfSense 2.2 image 3 Creating a Cloud Gateway Virtual Machine 6 Creating a VM Template based on the Cloud Gateway Virtual Machine |
68) To install the required packages for VMware Tools, run:
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Creating a VM Template based on the Cloud Gateway Virtual Machine
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See also: 2 Downloading the pfSense 2.2 image 3 Creating a Cloud Gateway Virtual Machine 5 Installing and Configuring VMWare Tools on pfSense 2.2 (64-bit) |
76) You will now need to disable the LAN and WAN interfaces prior to creating a VM Template based on the CGW VM. Gain console access to Cloud Gateway (CGW) via the vSphere console.
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