PfSense on VMware vSphere

canefield

Dear all,

Does somebody has any suggestions/ideas running or not running pfSense on a virtual environment? I know, it is best to use it as a seperate box indeed, but what happens while virtualized.

Does pfSense support it? How about giving resources to it. How much CPU, RAM should I reserve for it? Because VMware is using a smarter way of resource managent I can only guess such things. Is there a formula?

While installing a noticed pfSense had identified it as a virtual machine/platform. So I suppose it is working perfectly under VMware.
The other reason I post this is because I think on some point something is lacking. For instance; I had a well-working environment with pfSense, Snort, Squid3 en Varnish. Suddenly, while no configurations where been applied or changed, services stoped abruptly without any trace. How reliable is pfSense in VMware vSphere?

Something I really want to make crystal clear…a like pfSense and its features enormous

Thanks in advance,
Canefield

dLockers

Google, there are some great guides.

Mathiew

@canefield:

Dear all,

Does somebody has any suggestions/ideas running or not running pfSense on a virtual environment? I know, it is best to use it as a seperate box indeed, but what happens while virtualized.

Does pfSense support it? How about giving resources to it. How much CPU, RAM should I reserve for it? Because VMware is using a smarter way of resource managent I can only guess such things. Is there a formula?

While installing a noticed pfSense had identified it as a virtual machine/platform. So I suppose it is working perfectly under VMware.
The other reason I post this is because I think on some point something is lacking. For instance; I had a well-working environment with pfSense, Snort, Squid3 en Varnish. Suddenly, while no configurations where been applied or changed, services stoped abruptly without any trace. How reliable is pfSense in VMware vSphere?

Something I really want to make crystal clear…a like pfSense and its features enormous

Thanks in advance,
Canefield

We use pfsense under vshpere for multi-wan/captive portal purpose with 15 interfaces (VLANs). It works very well. 2 CPU and 1Go ram. It's a little bit too much (512 should be enough) but we have a lot of ram available.