Getting & Installing flexiWAN

On this page you will find instructions for getting the flexiWAN software and installing it on bare metal, virtual machine or in the cloud. The steps you would want to follow are:

  • Check the system requirements

  • Read the installation guide

  • Download the image for the installation format of your choice (see Downloading flexiWAN section below)

Installing flexiWAN

flexiWAN can be installed on any of these platforms:

Virtual Appliances

  • Download the pre-built virtual appliances per your hypervisor type for VMware, KVM/QEMU and VirtualBox and install a Virtual Machine based on the hypervisor type documentation.

Baremetal

  • Hardware appliances with flexiWAN from our hardware partners.

  • Installation image, see our baremetal installation guide.

  • Manually from packages, install on Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS with this guide.

Public Clouds

  • Amazon Web Services EC2 - see this guide.

  • Hetzner Cloud VPS. Deployment steps are covered in this guide.

  • DigitalOcean VPS. Deployment steps are covered in this guide.

Once the software installation is completed, it is required to set a organization token and link the device to your flexiManage account. This step is explained in the Management section.

Downloading flexiWAN

Downloads are available from the below section. Each image or virtual appliance has readme file, with instructions regarding credentials and network interfaces layout.

ISO Installer Release 6.2.18

flexiWAN offers installer images for installing on bare-metal. ISO Installer will create a recovery partition for offline restore. The installer supports serial console and VGA output, selection available at the initial boot menu. UEFI is required.

Default username and password are: admin / flexiwan

Serial settings:

  • Baud Rate - 115200
  • Data Bits - 8
  • Parity - None
  • Stop Bits - 1
  • Flow Control - off

flexiEdge.focal.6.2.18.iso.zip

SHA256: 35af0bcba9e49f578ca87304394a0fbda535d759fb1dc3c42d928aae32df7bda

VMware Release 6.2.18

A pre-built flexiEdge appliance for VMware. All VMware products such as Workstation, Fusion and Player are supported. flexiEdge appliance is available in OVA format for an easy deployment. Appliance use UEFI.

Default username and password are: admin / flexiwan

flexiEdge.focal.6.2.18.VMWare.ova.zip

SHA256: bc81fcff16a7474d31ae6511831da5cf45adc9abb33249befb4c835d19ba542f

KVM/QEMU Release 6.2.18

Pre-built flexiEdge appliances for KVM/QEMU UEFI and VGA.

Default username and password are: admin / flexiwan

flexiEdge.focal.6.2.18.qcow2.zip

SHA256: bad16bca87f3651422246483d4bf41f971f0ddc3e65250beacf5c6a6640cd348

Pre-built flexiEdge appliances for KVM/QEMU UEFI and Console.

Default username and password are: admin / flexiwan

flexiEdge.focal.6.2.18.console.qcow2.zip

SHA256: 9ec91e000ba88ec63a89cf4243907c5494f90d6619757e0703e67f2162c75c1b

Pre-built flexiEdge appliances for KVM/QEMU BIOS and Console.

Default username and password are: admin / flexiwan

flexiEdge.focal.6.2.18.console.bios.qcow2.zip

SHA256: 504367aaa10127bfc60e008e82cd2983c5e2a8287ec2e5f6a3f526f5ea2234a8

Virtualbox Release 6.2.18

A pre-built flexiEdge appliance for Oracle VirtualBox UEFI.

Default username and password are: admin / flexiwan

flexiEdge.focal.6.2.18.VBox.ova.zip

SHA256: 5366b8681cc548e1b801102df557150f4a535cce658926cd4edd4ed530c1267b

A pre-built flexiEdge Virtualbox raw image.

Default username and password are: admin / flexiwan

flexiEdge.focal.6.2.18.vdi.zip

SHA256: 84798407096fb28100a804e137e70d5de6f47929efeb7f3d38670b31f40982dd

The flexiWAN software is tested on many hardware configurations and multiple hypervisors. Make sure to install flexiWAN on supported hardware as described in the system requirements page. In case you run into any technical issues or have any questions, visit our Users Forum or contact us for assistance at yourfriends@flexiwan.com.