Monday, January 22, 2007

VMWARE ESX 3.0 FireWall

ESX 3.0:

The ESX firewall is great for security but a pain when it comes to troubleshooting! It may not be best practice (None of the stuff I write probably is), but you can change the default incoming and outgoing rule from deny to allow. I use it when I just can't get something in ESX to work remember to turn it back to deny once you have figured out what in the firewall to open...

To open:
esxcfg-firewall --allowOutgoing
esxcfg-firewall --allowIncoming

To close:
esxcfg-firewall --blockIncoming
esxcfg-firewall --blockOutgoing

1 comment:

Unknown said...

You may not have intended this for public use, but it sure saved me from pulling the rest of my hair out when I could not FTP out from an ESX server.