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I clicked P roperties in the right corner of the window and adjusted the machine settings accordingly.

This state-of-the-art firewall not only includes traditional firewalling on layer 3 and 4, but it also provides application-level firewall capabilities, user-level policies, DDoS protection, threat prevention, and a whole lot more.

In short, it makes a network and security guy like me drool.

I obtained my Palo Alto ACE certification after using it in the workplace as well as in school.

I have spent a lot of time configuring the Palo Alto, using it to mitigate threats such as DDoS attacks, and more.

If that wasnt enough, Palo Alto Networks sponsors the Information Technology major at Brigham Young University.

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As a result, I have access to an education license to a Palo Alto virtual firewall as well as some training material.

I know it is a bit overkill for a home network, but for someone as involved like me it is the perfect learning opportunity.

I chose the OptiPlex 9020 simply because it was available for me to use for free (again through the IT major at BYU).

Palo Alto recommends 4GB allocated to its VM as a minimum, and VMWare recommends about 4GB for its own ESXi server as well.

After everything is installed and working, Im only consuming about 5.2GB of RAM.

The SSD is a nice bonus as well.

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Thankfully I had the TP-Link NIC, and that Jose Gomes provides a driver for a few select USB NICs for ESXi servers.

This gives the NIC an IP address that you can connect to using VSphere.

I had to make it compatible with older versions of VMWare before uploading it to my ESXi box.

The first is for devices connecting on the trusted network and is called VM Network.

I also have a VMKernel for ESXi management connected on the trusted network.

I also have a Windows VM called PAManager as a way to troubleshoot as needed.

The speed is 100 mbps instead of 1 Gbps due to my ISP and not the NIC.

It makes managing VSphere easier so that it doesnt hop around if you get disconnected or misconfigure something.

I connected this to the port group PAManagementNetwork on vSwitch0.

The Palo Alto updates and performs other management tasks through this management interface.

By plugging that back into vSwitch0, it provides internet access for those tasks.

Although they show up as being on the VM Network (my internal network), they wont actually be there since VMware figures you dont need multiple NICs on the same port group.

I followed VMWares KB article on this subject by selecting the physical box in the left pane, selecting the configuration tab, then under the Software pane selecting Virtual Machine Startup.