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.

  • Oracle Cloud from here.

  • 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 6.3.28

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.6.3.28.iso.zip

SHA256: 3dd45db8f7d13244cff95a7acaa92e96d805120e684521a16cc3f6aeb22bb62e

VMware Release 6.3.28

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.6.3.28.VMWare.ova.zip

SHA256: 571665d7b9f8c87c9aeb418de409da3f617e70cef602b9b174dea03ee10e0ff8

KVM/QEMU Release 6.3.28

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

Default username and password are: admin / flexiwan

flexiEdge.focal.6.3.28.qcow2.zip

SHA256: 3bc8be7e64b0b84124d768dcdf957ad71af7613f7ffd988cb7aac52d899e1e5d

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

Default username and password are: admin / flexiwan

flexiEdge.focal.6.3.28.console.qcow2.zip

SHA256: 6d581d1829dd8e4c7102f4b09524c337efd3e27d43ad6f195553da8e1ee0043a

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

Default username and password are: admin / flexiwan

flexiEdge.focal.6.3.28.console.bios.qcow2.zip

SHA256: 7ef4510fbd13b4ae2c2b2fdf63263e2a0bfa2c99de56a82aaf0768b682237d8d

Virtualbox Release 6.3.28

A pre-built flexiEdge appliance for Oracle VirtualBox UEFI.

Default username and password are: admin / flexiwan

flexiEdge.focal.6.3.28.VBox.ova.zip

SHA256: ffca63bbd8517f7fd37ff391f1f6ae4969f1140bd405df098b85fbf2c338e734

A pre-built flexiEdge Virtualbox raw image.

Default username and password are: admin / flexiwan

flexiEdge.focal.6.3.28.vdi.zip

SHA256: 749dd2dc9c82252acaabc73cf5ff1c21dd25aa8bca8587bd33210a07371ac21c

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.