can firewalla secure a vmware esxi, allowing access to VMs but not to vmware?

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Tim Stephen

• July 22, 2023 02:20
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I want to put a vmware esxi box hosting 2 vms on the internet.  The 2 vms can have normal access -- I'm not looking for security for them beyond what they already have built in.  But the vmware hyper host itself needs to be secured so that only I can access the vmware management environment from remote locations.   I imagined this might be accomplished by making all contact with the ip address of the vmware layer go through VPN using an external vpn server device, presumably some firewalla product.  My questions are (1) am I correct in thinking this situation would work and would be secure,(2) the 2 vms would have their own ips and so would not be affected by the vpn system -- right?, and (3)  which firewalla product would accomplish this for me (at this time I don't think any other features beyond vpn would be needed, assuming I'm thinking about this correctly)?

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Tim

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  Firewalla

  • July 26, 2023 18:24

  Are you hosting them at home? if you are, pretty much all firewalla units in router mode will be able to help you filter traffic going in and out of the network.

   

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  Tim Stephen

  • July 26, 2023 19:01

  No.  They are to be located at a server farm.

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  Firewalla

  • July 26, 2023 20:01

  Unless you can forward traffic through firewalla, it unlikely to work. 

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