Building new Firewall for 20~30K users @ 1Gbps
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I see - Couldn't do it with Vsphere for free?
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=vsphere%20pfsense&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CDMQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vmsources.com%2Fresources%2Fdoc_download%2F38-installing-pfsense-in-vsphere-esxi&ei=pS4lUuWUEcLc2QXS_oCwBQ&usg=AFQjCNExtgqa942vB1q4SW-IfJ-Ndx2UQg&cad=rja
Edit - (I initially said Hyper-V - Obviously I was being scatter brained)
Anyway - I know that 32 bit instances of pfsense 2.1 run well on ESXi.
I did have some issue with the 64bit version, but only when using more than 4 WAN IPs.
It was perhaps a glitch in that particular snapshot and may already be resolved. Not sure.
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I don't believe vSphere is free. I know pfsense offers an install instance you can easily install into a VM environment. But the actual VM software itself I don't believe is free.
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http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor/
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Learn something new everyday lol! If that's the case then all you'll have is hardware at that point and from there you can maybe setup pfsesnse in a load balance type setup.
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On another note I've found what I'm going to install on my new server I'm going to buy.
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And that is?
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ESXi 5.X free hypervisor :)
At least this is how I imagine what he ment :) -
Yep!! I already use it at work for 2 or 3 test machines and since it's free and I have licenses for all the server OSes may as well take advantage of it. :)
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Good deal.
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This has got me wondering now how pfsense can be integrated into this with a load balancing type configuration. That would be an ideal solution.
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There are tons of links here and there on the subject of pfsense / cluster / carp / load balance. Etc Etc.
I haven't tested any of them, but they should work in VM just fine if they work in physical machines.
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Ha I need to search more but you're right if they work in physical they should work in virtual and better actually.