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 6.4.32

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.6.4.32.iso.zip

SHA256: 9f939740b7fefcc3699b02c418ce9f820928cdbc0023f21e3c0cd8e52c9e0e55

VMware Release 6.4.32

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.6.4.32.VMWare.ova.zip

SHA256: df2e9e63253ab3ef7b394a561a7364d214318760cc7b23a8302c0d2dab3d7d09

KVM/QEMU Release 6.4.32

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

Default username and password are: admin / flexiwan

flexiEdge.focal.6.4.32.qcow2.zip

SHA256: 75c0e72d0b42699b03960fb49c79967a353bb1efb4d925267f9ef10f906fbb80

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

Default username and password are: admin / flexiwan

flexiEdge.focal.6.4.32.console.qcow2.zip

SHA256: 053d638e694c9cb46e9c3ee7e2472aa4d5a0b7ba8a0f626534c194a3e237b7ad

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

Default username and password are: admin / flexiwan

flexiEdge.focal.6.4.32.console.bios.qcow2.zip

SHA256: bb212bb039a58c98147f97d4fdbaffc27505491c27a21ec29a495735db6c0ff6

Virtualbox Release 6.4.32

A pre-built flexiEdge appliance for Oracle VirtualBox UEFI.

Default username and password are: admin / flexiwan

flexiEdge.focal.6.4.32.VBox.ova.zip

SHA256: a8dc97d7fcb8697f78f154a460aa3eab2236b7a31cbc3fe43aea120a403eb48e

A pre-built flexiEdge Virtualbox raw image.

Default username and password are: admin / flexiwan

flexiEdge.focal.6.4.32.vdi.zip

SHA256: 5ec8f56214fc2ac12bddcd347757633b714107818807600cded94be710a04a03

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.