Guide to installing Sophos Firewall Management on VMWare ESXi

Sophos Firewall Management (SFM) provides powerful centralized management for all your Sophos Firewalls across multiple customers sites or branch offices – all from a single screen. Whether you’re an MSP, Enterprise Network Security Admin, or simply managing a few small offices, SFM simplifies security management enabling consistent enforcement, easy provisioning of new policies, and at-a-glance monitoring of device health. SFM saves you time, money and makes management simpler

Guide to installing SFM

• Login to VMWare Esxi by root account

 

• Click right mouse in Virtual Machine -> Create/Register VM

 

• In Select creation type -> Click Create a new virtual machine -> Click Next

 

• In Select a name and guest OS

-Name: Import virtual machine’s name is SFM

-Compatibility: Choose ESXi 6.5 virtual machine (depend on VMWare Esxi version)

-Guest OS Family: Choose Linux

-Guest OS Version: Choose Other Linux (64-bit)

->Click Next

 

• In Select Storage -> Click Next

 

• In Customize Settings -> Choose Add other device -> CD/DVD Drive to add file iso

 

**Minimum memory is 1 GB

**Minimum hard disk is 64 GB

** In new CD/DVD Drive choose Datastore ISO file

 

• Choose file ISO SFM  -> Select

 

• In Ready to comple -> Click Finish

 

• Click virtual machine which have been installed SFM

 

• Import y to install -> Enter

 

• Click y to continue -> Enter

 

• Click y to reboot -> Enter

 

• After reboot -> import password “admin” -> Enter -> Click A to accept

 

• Finish install

 

• Click 1 to see IP Address -> Enter

 

• Click 1 to see -> Enter
• Config IP to machine can connect to internet to authentication Serial Number

 

• Use Web Browser to connect SFM’s graphics interface
• Import username and password is “admin” -> Login

 

• After login -> Import Serial Number (Serial Number in email) -> Activate Device

 

• After authentication Serial Number -> Click Start

 

• Import parameter

 

• Finish