Won't boot after an unclean shutdown

[Davewolfs]

Hi all,

Just testing out pfSense on ESXi.  One thing that I have noticed is that if the system is given a hard reset or an improper shutdown it will always fail to boot again and pfSense will require a new installation.

Given that it is running in a VM I have the luxury of taking a backup.  But I'm curious as to how the system can be so sensitive to an improper shutdown.  I don't think I've ever seen anything like this.

Is it possible that there is some sort of setting which is required when running pfSense on ESXi?  I appreciate any feedback.

Thanks!

[jimp]

I have a dozen or so pfSense VMs on an ESX box for a lab setup and I yank the power from it all the time (it doesn't have a battery backup). I've never had to do anything special to get them to recover on that one. Or any other ESX box I've seen running pfSense.

[Davewolfs]

I can tell you that this is definitely not the case and I am running on high quality hardware.

Maybe it's because I am using a think provisioned disk. Will research it a bit more.

[jimp]

I also use thin provisioned disks.

Something is definitely different in your environment causing it. I wouldn't be so confident in your hardware.

[kapara]

Not sure abou VMware but virtual machines running pfsense (I use Hyper-V) and I have never had an issue so would agree with jimp.