Networking appliances

VM Squared provides L2 networking and L3 VM security. To integrate routing and perform enhanced L3 features you may use VM Appliances such as:

Appliance vendors

In general the process is the same for each network appliance:

A KVM-compatible build can be used on VM Squared (cloudInit is available)
- Upload disk image
- Create a VM Template for the Appliance
Deploy the VM Appliance like any other VM
- Attach the upstream IP network
- Select external IP address
- Configure external IP address in VM Appliance OS
Create Virtual Networks to place behind the VM Appliance
- Connect these VLANs to all hosts in the clusters
- Pick IP range and gateway address
- Allocate a dedicated IP address range to the Virtual Networks (excluding gateway address)
- Configure Virtual Network context with gateway IP
Add Virtual Networks to the VM Appliance
- Allocate gateway IP address to the VM Appliance
- Configure VM Appliance software to use gateway IP address
- Configure VM Appliance with next-hop routing rule
Configure next-hop routing
- Route traffic for the new IP CIDRs to VM Appliance’s IP address
- Validate that traffic flows to the appliance
- Connect test VM behind VM Appliance and verify routes and ACLs