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In VCenter, if I have all my ESX servers inside the Network, later on I will decide to put some VMs in the DMZ. Considering that we have 2 cisco physical ASA firewall appliances.<br />
&nbsp;in this case do I have to add for instance 2 Physical NICs to some ESX servers and plug them to a physical Switch in the DMZ ?<br />
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OR I need to configure a Virtual DMZ ?<br />
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Thanks
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In VCenter, if I have all my ESX servers inside the Network, later on I will decide to put some VMs in the DMZ. Considering that we have 2 cisco physical ASA firewall appliances.
 in this case do I have to add for instance 2 Physical NICs to some ESX servers and plug them to a physical Switch in the DMZ ?

OR I need to configure a Virtual DMZ ?


Thanks

Put VMs in DMZ

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

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Cisco PIX is a dedicated hardware firewall appliance; the Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) is a firewall and anti-malware security appliance that provides unified threat management and protection the PIX does not. Other Cisco devices and systems include routers, switches, storage networking, wireless and the software and hardware for PIX Firewall Manager (PFM), PIX Device Manager (PDM) and Adaptive Security Device Manager (ASDM).

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A switch is a device that filters and forwards packets of data between LAN segments. Switches operate at the data link layer or the network layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model and therefore support any packet protocol. LANs that use switches to join segments are called switched LANs or, in the case of Ethernet networks, switched Ethernet LANs. A hub is a connection point for devices in a network. Hubs are commonly used to connect segments of a LAN. A hub contains multiple ports; when a packet arrives at one port, it is copied to the other ports so that all segments of the LAN can see all packets.