Hi all,
I am trying to implement a virtual lab environment using VMware Workstation/VM Player v9 on my Windows 7 laptop for portability reasons and mainly for self training.
In the past I have had a fully fledged Citrix and VMware vsphere virtual lab running in this type of setup with no real issues. I would like to extend this lab further by introducing an application firewall like Citrix Netscaler VPX to enable integration with Citrix XenApp and Webinterface/Storefront.
I have attached a high level design diagram of what I am aiming to achieve in my rather limited virtual lab because my laptop only having 2 NICs (1 Ethernet and 1 Wireless) and I am also sharing my home broadband internet connection using the VMware Bridged virtual networking.
The virtual networking is configured as below and some of the questions that have cropped up in my mind about how the virtual networking should be created/configured.
192.168.1.0 (Bridged Networking same as my home network)
192.168.199.0 (Host Networking - PRIVATE LAN)
192.168.10.0 (Host Networking - DMZ)
In my design I have shown the UTM with 3 NIC's (this is my assumption) not sure whether this can be done or not?
I am also not too sure whether I should utilize the VMware NATting virtual network for the DMZ instead of Host?
If the UTM could be used for separating the network traffic/setting firewall rules as to how I could go about configuring this i.e NIC configs, NAT and firewall rules etc.
Previously, I have thought about using a router/firewall appliance from say Vyatta but I felt this would also be quite complex therefore I have shy ed away in considered a firewall appliance similar to the UTM which has a GUI and Free.
I will be grateful for any help the firewall experts on this forum can provide and or comment on how I could accommodate what I am hoping to accomplish and whether this would be feasible so as to I don't waste too much time trying to make this work.
Thanking you all in advance.
MG
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