Moving from VM to Netsense Box
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My VM of pfSense has served well for the last two years, right up until server it was on decided to start dying. To both save time and help out, I bought a netgate box (SG-4860-1U). I've backed up and installed to different locations before, but it's always been vm-based. Is there any stumbling blocks to exporting my config from the vm and dumping it to the shiny new netgate box? I really don't want to recreate my DHCP reservations/OpenVPN/Snort stuff if at all possible.
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Just do as you already did.
Be prepared to reassign interfaces, though.
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Yeah, I figured the magic ends at where the wires go… Thanks!
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One word of wisdom: Make sure both devices are on the same patch level.
I did not heed this wisdom and found out the hard way how difficult it was to re-import the settings. I don't remember which versions I did this with, but it was a few in between.
I recently did a pfSense hardware migration following the above advice, and it went flawlessly. In my case the interfaces lined up perfectly.
