Installing vShield Edge

vShield Edge provides physical firewall and VPN capabilities at the virtualization level. In this recipe, we will configure a vShield edge appliance to pass traffic from our internal network to the DMZ network in a classic firewall scenario. When the edge appliance is configured, it will look like the following figure:

Installing vShield Edge

Getting ready

The installation of vShield Edge is accomplished through the vShield Web Console as introduced in Chapter 7, Configuring vShield Manager. A Core Infrastructure Suite (CIS) or vCloud Networking and Security (vCNS) license must be installed prior to installing vShield App and vShield Edge.

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