Some time ago I consolidated all my servers in my home office on a
vmware 3i server with 3 physical interfaces, including m0n0wall for
WAN connectivity and DMZ. Reduced my electricity bill nicely while
running around 15 active VM's (from windows XP to freebsd 4 and 6 to
openbsd, Askozia and CCM6 plus some proprietary servers as well), but
now all on a single server.

There are probably security issues with such a  setup, particularly if
one configures the virtual switches wrong, but that also holds true
for VLAN's.

BTW I started with an old vmware version of m0n0wall from Chris:
http://chrisbuechler.com/m0n0wall/vmware/

then upgraded them using the generic-pc version to the latest 1.3b13.

I'm pretty happy with the setup.


Marcel






On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Ulrik Lunddahl (PROconsult)
<ul at proconsult dot dk> wrote:
> Well the traffic shaper is not needed, but I was actually thinking about using it in a production
environment.
>
> I run some Virtual machines I would like to protect from the general environment, and instead of
using VLAN and an external m0n0wall box. It would be nice and simple to add a few m0n0's to the HA
environment.
>
> Does anyone else have experience with m0n0 on ESX 3.5 ?
>
>
> Med venlig hilsen, Best regards
> Ulrik Lunddahl
>
> Sales Manager - Salgschef
> PROconsult Data A/S - Rugårdsvej 15 - 5000  Odense C
> Tel: +45 63113333 - Tel dir: +45 63113341 - Mobil: +45 26363341 - Fax: +45 63113344
> E-mail: ul at proconsult dot dk - Web site: www.proconsult.dk
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
> Fra: Daniel Ekman [mailto:daniel at 33k dot org]
> Sendt: 17. juli 2008 14:58
> Til: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
> Emne: Re: [m0n0wall] M0N0wall and VMware.
>
> The virtual appliance runs fine, the only thing i noticed is that the traffic shaper somewhat
calculated wrong in some instances. haven't tested it thoroughly tho.
>
> Other then that i believe its excellent for testing m0n0wall.
>
> /Daniel
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ulrik Lunddahl (PROconsult)
> [mailto:ul at proconsult dot dk]
> To: monowall [mailto:m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch]
> Sent:
> Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:33:36 +0200
> Subject: [m0n0wall] M0N0wall and VMware.
>
>
>> Hey!
>>
>>
>>
>> How is m0n0wall running on VMware, is there anything that I should be aware
>> off ?
>>
>>
>>
>> I have noticed that that there is a Virtual Appliance on the VMware site and
>> it seems to be quite popular too?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Med venlig hilsen, Best regards
>> Ulrik Lunddahl
>>
>> Sales Manager - Salgschef
>> PROconsult Data A/S - Rugårdsvej 15 - 5000  Odense C
>> Tel: +45 63113333 - Tel dir: +45 63113341 - Mobil: +45 26363341 - Fax: +45
>> 63113344
>> E-mail: ul at proconsult dot dk - Web site: www.proconsult.dk
>>
>>
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>>
>
> 3 3 x . b e t
> /rot ther'teen/ [Usenet: from "rotate alphabet 13 places"]
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