Esxi 6 & pfsense nic help
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Hello,
I have been browsing the web for a guide to help me install pfsense in esxi 6 under workstation 12. I will try to explain my setup as best as I can.
Hardware:
Motherboard - Supermicro 2758F
16g Ecc Ram
120-SSDI would like to also say that I use to run just pfsense on this box for almost a year but I have decided to utilize the hardware since it was built for home use and was a little much for what I actually needed.
Linux is my main OS then I installed Workstation 12. In Workstation I installed Esxi and Windows 7 under two different VM. Under Esxi I installed pfSense.
To get my other nic's to show up in esxi I had to power down the VM and add another Network Adapter 2 and click Custom. If I did not do this no other nic would show up.
Now my problem is getting internet via WAN & LAN on pfsense. I beleive it has something to do with my Nic settings. After adding my second Nic I noticed it was already connected. This is the guide that I found that helped point me in the right direction. https://snowulf.com/2015/08/31/tutorial-using-vmware-esxi-and-pfsense-as-a-network-firewallrouter/
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For what possible reason would you have it nested like that?? Just install esxi native, and install the OSes as vms you want..
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I was just wondering if it was possible to do it this way & if there was an easy fix. Sadly if not I will just do a native install.
To answer your question, the reason why I have it nested like that so I can use Splashtop to remote into my Linux OS and remote control all the settings.
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"I can use Splashtop to remote into my Linux OS and remote control all the settings." That is pretty lame reason.. Once you have esxi installed, and or pfsense - you can either just access esxi directly via the client, then console to any vm. You could RDP/Splashtop to any vm, run esxi vclient from there. You could just ssh to your esxi host, etc. etc..
If you want type 2 on your box, then just install pfsense to workstation 12, no need to install esxi under that.
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In the end I just installed esxi am going to use that to run my VM's like you first suggested. I have already installed esxi and have it running with pfsense. My only quesetion is do I have to do any https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Tuning_and_Troubleshooting_Network_Cards before I had to increase the mbfu but now since pfsense is running inside esxi i am unsure.
Also I noticed that my thermal sensors are not working, is there a fix?
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I also installed Open-VM-Tools package. Other then that I was going to set up pfsense like I would normally do if it wasn't in a VM.
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How wold your thermal sensors work in a VM? Look to esxi for your thermal info on the hardware.. I don't think your system supports vt-d does it?
I have not needed to do anything with mbfu, nor any other sort of specific tuning.. Then again not running on your hardware..