pfSense newbie: can it run in a VM and handle a 10Gb/s ISP line?

provels

@cool_corona said in pfSense newbie: can it run in a VM and handle a 10Gb/s ISP line?:

@provels You need new nics and xeon's to reach it... and not running it in a Hyper-V environment.

Would be less than worthless on my 75Mb WAN, my GB LAN and 54Mb WLAN...

Cool_Corona

@provels Yeah...

Cr4z33

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Cr4z33

@cool_corona said in pfSense newbie: can it run in a VM and handle a 10Gb/s ISP line?:

@cr4z33 https://www.serverworlds.com/refurbished-lenovo-x3550-m5-sff-configured-to-order-8869-ac1/

Thanks mate, but living in the EU that would cost me too much hehe.

I have however found a refurbished Supermicro CSE815 - X10SLH-LN6TF / N6-ST031 for quite a very interesting price.

Would that finally be good for my needs?
Might also be a good purchase to start learning networking in a more serious way for me.

Cool_Corona

@cr4z33 said in pfSense newbie: can it run in a VM and handle a 10Gb/s ISP line?:

CSE815 - X10SLH-LN6TF

No that CPU cant handle it...

Cr4z33

@cool_corona alright may I ask you then what Xeon CPUs suite my needs so that I can monitor the eBay bargains?

Cool_Corona

@cr4z33 Core count is not that important but CPU speed is.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/processors/xeon/d/products.html

Look after something on this list if you can...

Cr4z33

@cool_corona thank you for all your help.

LJGriz

I'd like to add that adding the following lines to /boot/loader.conf to my pfSense CE 2.6.0 VM hosted under ESXi 6.7 has been stable for the past few days, and increased my speeds from ~1.8gbps up/down to ~6gbps up/down. Keep in mind that these speeds have been validated on the following hardware:

VM Host: Intel Xeon-D 2146NT w/64GB RAM, dual Intel X722 network adapters
VM Guest: pfSense 2.6.0 CE w/8 vCPUs, 16GB RAM.
-No PCIe-passthru, straight up standard vSwitches.

Workstation behind pfSense: AMD Ryzen 3700x, 64GB ram, dual X520 network adapters.

No switches between, single mode fiber between both the workstation and the VM host.

Mind you speeds could most likely improve, but the trunk line out of town during the time of testing is 10gbps, but saturated with close to 4gbps, thus the nearly 6gbps results.

/boot/loader.conf
hw.pci.honor_msi_blacklist="0"
dev.vmx.0.iflib.override_ntxds="0,4096"
dev.vmx.0.iflib.override_nrxds="0,2048,0"
dev.vmx.1.iflib.override_ntxds="0,4096"
dev.vmx.1.iflib.override_nrxds="0,2048,0"

Cool_Corona

@ljgriz Note that SATA runs out of juice at 6gbps......

So if you run SATA drives, then it wont go higher.