Setup guide

2 (Optional) Click Enable SSH access if required.
3 Click Next.
The Edge Appliances page appears.
Add Appliances
You must add an appliance before you can deploy a vShield Edge. If you do not add an appliance when you
install vShield Edge, vShield Edge remains in an offline mode until you add an appliance.
Prerequisites
For high availability, verify that the resource pool has enough capacity for both HA virtual machines to be
deployed. A compact vShield Edge virtual machine requires 256 MB of memory, a large vShield Edge
virtual machine requires 1 GB of memory, and an X-Large vShield Edge virtual machine requires 8 GB of
memory. The datastore must have at least 512 MB disk space.
Procedure
1 On the Edge Appliances page, select the size of the vShield Edge instance based on your system
resources.
The Large vShield Edge has more CPU, memory, and disk space than the Compact vShield Edge, and
supports a bigger number of concurrent SSL VPN-Plus users. The X-Large vShield Edge is suited for
environments which have Load Balancer with millions of concurrent sessions. The X-Large vShield
Edge does not support SSL VPN.
2 Click Enable auto rule generation to add firewall, NAT, and routing routes to enable control traffic to
flow for these services..
If you do not select Enable auto rule generation, you must manually create firewall rules to add
firewall, NAT, and routing routes to allow control channel traffic for vShield Edge services such as
Load Balancing, VPN, etc.
NOTE Auto rule generation does not create rules for data-channel traffic.
3 Click Enable AESNI to enable Intel
®
Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions (Intel
®
AES-NI).
4
In Edge Appliances, click the Add (
) icon to add an appliance.
If you had selected Enable HA on the Name and Description page, you can add two appliances. If you
add a single appliance, vShield Edge replicates its configuration for the standby appliance ensures that
the two HA vShield Edge virtual machines are not on the same ESX host even after you use DRS and
vMotion (unless you manually vMontion them to the same host).
5 In the Add Edge Appliance dialog box, select the cluster or resource pool and datastore for the
appliance.
6 (Optional) Select the host on which the appliance is to be added.
7 (Optional) Select the vCenter folder within which the appliance is to be added.
8 Click Add.
9 Click Next.
The Interfaces page appears.
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