Sophos XG Firewall VM Ware Installation

Essentially it would be best practise to add as many interfaces as you want to have in this phase. 

There is a guide for the ESXi Part: https://docs.sophos.com/nsg/sophos-firewall/19.0/Help/en-us/webhelp/onlinehelp/VirtualAndSoftwareAppliancesHelp/VMware/VMwareInstall/index.html

But you need to configure the first network adapter to use 172.16.16.1 on your machine. The second adapter has to be NAT. 

Then you should be good to go to access 172.16.16.16:4444 

How do I configure the network adapter on both? The Server & Sophos XG Machine ? Disabling DCHP is helpful and assigning static ip address?

Hi Xavier,

You can edit your IP/subnet setting on the "Virtual Network Adaptor on your VM".  For reference, you can follow the link below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbgUh16UxKw

E.g

1. Set the NAT network on the Virtual Network adaptor the same as your  network. (i.e 172.20.x.x/24) 

2. Configure your 1st adaptor to NAT on VM

3. Set the IP of Port A on XG to the same network as your NAT settings in #1(172.20.x.16)

Click 1. Network Configuration >1. Interface configuration

5. Set your Window server on the same config as the XG.

For reference, kindly see below for configuring  XG on VM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5nLd2eTuFA

You can do both. Likely most people work with DHCP for WAN and static for LAN interfaces. So use portA/1 as static and assign on port B a dhcp address by Vmware