Comment on virtualizing PFSense. What else works besides ESXi for virtual networking?

anamethatisnt@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• kalpol@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Admittedly I have not dug too deeply into Proxmox but its learning curve appears kinda steep.

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  • anamethatisnt@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s multiple guides on virtualizing pfsense in proxmox, but the easiest is to simply pci passthrough the nics you wanna use.
    I do recommend you leave a physical nic for proxmox itself to maintain LAN access to it if your pfsense is down.

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    • twei@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There could be driver issues doing this. I had a bad experience with Emulex NICs under OPNsense, Intel OTOH worked flawlessly. Switched back to virtual interfaces tho, as it works about as good as a physical NIC

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  • BlueEther@no.lastname.nz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    its not too bad. i switched from esxi to proxmox about 2 years ago.

    i run a virtualized opnsense with 2 nic’s passed through and another 2 virt, so it can be done

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    • b3an@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hey! I have been using ESXi about three year now. I have two identical NIC I bought. One for WAN and one for LAN. I also discovered I had to use the onboard LAN port (3rd port!) just to be able to access the web control. (Is that normal?)

      Anyway, I want to move to Proxmox, and then virtualize my OPNSense like I have on ESXi.

      I get so confused by how the adapters should be. Ideally I would love to have the LAN connect to a (dumb) switch, and provide Wi-Fi. But one thing I never tried before is a VLAN to protect the LAN from the Wi-Fi traffic, but still allowing some systems to still work like streaming data from the wired PC on the LAN to the NVIDIA Shield Pro. But then keeping the Alexa/Echo system on a more restricted WiFi.

      Can I do all this? I’m thinking I can, but. The hurdle of learning vlans and configuring the new Proxmox (which I’m pretty damn new to) is a daunting challenge.

      I’m ready to try this though. I have a 4G wireless plus WiFi system to keep the other half happy while I tinker to get it all working.

      Thoughts/Tips? Anyone?

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      • BlueEther@no.lastname.nz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        All doable, you might need a managed or smart switch though

        I have 4 bland at home plus untagged all through proxmox and a smart switch

        • one for wan
        • one for web facing servers
        • one for iot
        • one for guest wifi
        • rest of lab is untagged

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    • TCB13@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And in about 2 years you’ll switch to LXD/Incus. :P

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      • BlueEther@no.lastname.nz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m currently off work with a broken shoulder, have you just given me a project?

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      • tofubl@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Incus looks cool. Have you virtualised a firewall on it? Is it as flexible as proxmox in terms of hardware passthrough options?

        I find zero mentions online of opnsense on incus. 🤔

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  • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Proxmox is quite simple. As a former VCP, I find Proxmox more intuitive to use.

    If you need specific help with Proxmox and/or ZFS, you might also look at posting on www.practicalzfs.com

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  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s not too different from ESXi, things are just named differently in the webUI.

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  • kylian0087@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    From my understanding is that Proxmox is one of the more easy platforms to learn. I must say iI never used it personally.

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