Hey guys,
I'm writing this so a knowledge base can be written on it. How to configure a vmware installation or iso installation of Mail Gateway into a vmware production server:
Network Layout Example:
Real server public address Example – 10.0.0.23, 10.0.0.24, 10.0.0.25 ......
VMware Server :
1)You will need 2 vmware installs
a) (Mail Gateway) vmware-astaro or astaro.iso installing into a vmware environment
b) Installation of any OS on the other instant
So for example I setup:
Real Server) Redhat Enterprise 5 / 10.0.0.23
Server 1) vmware-astaro – 192.168.0.1 / 10.0.0.24
Server 2) ubuntu - 192.168.0.3/10.0.0.25
Configure the vmware-server or vmware-gsx with both (BRIDGE and NAT support) make the NAT address 192.168.0.2
Once you have vmware configured with both BRIDGE and NAT support you will need to configure both server1 and server2 networking for NAT... I did this through the web interface for vmware on port 8333....
http://10.0.0.23:8333/ui
Now login through the web console into Server 2 (Ubuntu) and login to the default user you created. Open a web browser → firefox. Once you do that go to:
(Configure the ubuntu network interface for 192.168.0.3)
https://192.168.0.1:4444
Accept certificate!
You should now be in the Astaro Device! - Configure networking for your public interface I changed the internal interface from 192.168.0.1 to 10.0.0.24. Save and apply. (think of 10.0.0.24 as your free public address that isnt bound to any interface anywhere yet)
Now you need to log back into http://10.0.0.23:8333/ui and switch the network interface (edit) from NAT to Bridge!...
Now you can access your Astaro device publicly through https://10.0.0.24:4444 !
Please note, its late and I've been fighting with my server all day trying to figure out how I was going to setup the vmware image and this is the solution I came up with. There was no documentation on how to setup something up like this remotely. Hopefully this will help the community!
Best Regards,
Jonathan -
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