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Admin Console on VMware ESXi/vSphere

This article explains how to deploy Admin Console of Cloud Secure Web Gateway project into VMware vSphere/ESXi.

First, download Admin Console virtual appliance from our site and save it into a folder.

Download Admin Console Virtual Appliance

Extract the downloaded archive by right clicking on it and selecting Extract All.

Extract Virtual Appliance

Extracted Virtual Appliance

Login into your VMware ESXi and click Create/Register a New Virtual Machine. On the opened wizard page, select Deploy Virtual Machine from OVF or OVA file and click Next.

Create Virtual Machine

Enter a name for the virtual machine, for example console.example.com and click on the Click to Select Files field.

Select Files for Virtual Machine

Navigate to the unpacked folder and select all three files holding Shift button on the keyboard and then click Open button.

Open Selected Files for Virtual Machine

Note, that only two files will be shown as selected in the wizard, click the Next button.

Selected Files

Select the desired datastore, datastore3 in our case, but yours will be different of course, then click the Next button.

Select Datastore

Select the network mapping and other options and click the Next button.

Select Network Mapping

Finally, check if everything is fine and click the Finish button.

Wizard Finish

Wait till the appliance is uploaded into VMware ESXi and booted up automatically.

Appliance Boot