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Thank you great help, &nbsp;very quick response
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Thank you great help,  very quick response

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We are replacing our physical web server that is currently located in our DMZ with a VM.<br />
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At the moment, we have an Ethernet cable running from the DMZ port on our Watchguard directly to the physical web server.<br />
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Can you please advise what I need to do with the physical cabling and the vSphere networking to enable the Watchguard DMZ port to be visible to the VM infrastructure.<br />
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Hasan
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We are replacing our physical web server that is currently located in our DMZ with a VM.
 
At the moment, we have an Ethernet cable running from the DMZ port on our Watchguard directly to the physical web server.
 
Can you please advise what I need to do with the physical cabling and the vSphere networking to enable the Watchguard DMZ port to be visible to the VM infrastructure.

Hasan

replacing our physical web server that is currently located in our DMZ with a VM

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