Wilk's Notes

Here's the second part of my previous post . In this tutorial, we're going to finish up the OpenVPN setup. What's left to do is creating client configuration file (.ovpn), which is going to contain all the info required by the OpenVPN client for establishing a VPN connection. We're also going to look into the actual client software setup on Windows, Linux, Android, iOS and OSX. The final part of the tutorial is probably going to be released sometime later this month - it's going to cover more advanced OpenVPN features such as password protected client certificates, adding SSL from a Top-Level CA as well as how to configure a side-to-side VPN connection between two networks. Welcome, to OpenVPN Server Setup Part II

We’re all lazy, aren’t we? If you think about it for a second, everything you do is more or less aimed at making your life easier, simpler and less-time consuming. Think about your last project. What were you more concerned about: polishing every little detail or maybe getting some stuff done as soon as possible due to an incoming deadline?

Essential network components are sometimes the hardest to configure without knowing the basics. When I first started working on a virtual environment, I didn't even know I had to setup networking! It took me weeks to understand fully how all the VMware "parts" speak to each other. The vKernels, vSwitches, vLANs versus VLANs... yeah, that's a story for another time.  For now, let's talk about the basics. In this post I'll quickly walk you through the process of setting up a virtual router (vRouter) - a Linux VM responsible for most of your internal virtual networking. Once we have that up and going, we can continue our journey through the exciting world of virtual networking inside both VMware vSphere and Hyper-V.