Fulfilling a customer’s need for a low-cost (GPL) HTTP proxy solution, I had the pleasure of finding a pre-built virtual appliance this weekend. Installation was a snap, only requiring a minor level of configuration before being able to use Dalmatech’s prebuilt VMware Appliance. The VM features Ubuntu (JeOS), Webmin, Squid, and Dansguardian preinstalled and configured with a virtual disk sized for caching.
Installation on an ESX host requires using VMware Convertor as the machine is supplied in VMX format instead of the common OVF appliance format. Depending on your location in regards to your Vi3 environment, this may be a time consuming process. Once converted, the machine will use approximately 50GB of your VMFS datastore. You will need to configure a static IP, and I strongly recommend changing the user password.
Once installed, you can configure your clients to use http://your-proxys-ip:8080 and traffic will be routed through Dansguardian.
For more information on installation and how to download the Virtual Appliance, head to http://www.dalmatech.com/squid.html
