Virtualising Smoothwall on VMWare - Physical setup ?

[mikkydoos]

Hi all,

 

Virtualising Smoothwall on VMWare - Physical setup ?

 

Hopefully someone can give me a few pointers on the physical setup virtualising Smoothwall on VMWare.

 

I've got 2 hosts -- Currently in the process of configuring distributed switches instead of standard switches so I can share the network config across the hosts.

 

 

Current Smoothwall setup is a physical box that is EOL and needs virtualising.... Roles: Filter, firewall and VLAN routing.

 

ISP router into physical Smoothwall NIC1 ---> out of physical NIC 2 and routed to my VLANS via trunk port on L3 switch stack.

 

Hosts are connected to the L3 stack via 2 trunk ports (LACP).

 

 

 

Is this a viable way to accomplish this ?

 

 

ISP router into an access port on the L3 stack on say VLAN 200 ----> VLAN200 via the LACP trunk to a dedicated distributed port group for NIC1 of Smoothwall VM ----> NIC2 of the Smoothwall VM back to the network, routed via all the VLANS that require Internet.

 

 

Think I'm pretty much on the right track but this has to be secure so obviously ACL's and VACL's will be set up to prevent VLAN 200 from going anywhere else but Smoothwall.

 

 

 

How do you do it ???

 

 

 

Cheers in advance

Edited June 14, 2022 by mikkydoos