If you do not want to use the distributed firewall service, you can deactivate it.

When you deactivate the distributed firewall service for a data center group, the security rules configuration for this group is deleted permanently and cannot be recovered.

Prerequisites

Deactivate the default distributed firewall policy.

Procedure

  1. In the top navigation bar, click Networking and then click the Data Center Groups tab.
    The list of data center groups appears.
  2. Click the target data center group.
  3. Click General.
  4. In the Distributed Firewall pane on the right, click Deactivate, and confirm the action.

Results

The distributed firewall service is deactivated and the security rules configuration is deleted.