Lab 01 Virtual Machine (VM) Creation and Network Configuration

This lab contains information directions and exercises to teach you how to:

Setup your VMs (specific to your class)
Configure a network address translation (NAT) firewall using pfSense,
Configure networking on the required VMs behind the firewall
Use the commandline to find network information including
- IP address
- Hostname
- DNS information and
- Gateway all on BSD, Linux and Windows.

Creating the VMs

First we will setup the pfSense VM.

Open internet explorer and to to https://samuel.cs.southern.edu
Select VMs (this will show any VMs that currently exist for you).
Select Deploy to deploy a new VM
Click Configure Cloud, and select the name of your cloud (Israel)
Select the pfSense template and click ok.
Click on the Configure Virtual Machine and set the "Virtual Machine Name" to: "CPTE427-username" where you replace username with your school username. It is unneccesary to give the "computer name" at this time.
Click OK, Click Deploy at the bottom right.
Don't turn on the machine yet! Directions for setting up each machine are given below in the setup section.

Repeat the process above for the following VM templates:

Start the pfSense VM and allow it to start with defaults. It will eventually ask you for some information like: