Virtualized pfSense on QNAP NAS
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@killpilot , as I'm sure you know, Netgate just released pfSense as a Virtualization Station app for QNAP devices. I know your TVS-663 supports VS. I'm just curious if you have tried running this app, and if so, any issues? Also, if you don't mind me asking, are you running pfSense with any of the security packages (like Snort, pfBlocker, OpenVPN, LightSquid)? If so, are you able to maintain bandwidth with all of these running?
I ask because I am in need of a new firewall/UTM (to replace an ageing Zyxel device) as well as a new NAS. So I'm thinking of buying a supported QNAP device and running pfSense (kill two birds with one stone). My main concern, aside from stability (which seems good from what I've read) is not throttling my bandwidth when running pfSense with the various packages. Any thoughts on this?
Hopefully you're still following this thread.
Thanks!.
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hi, i so sorry for the long wait....
so.... finally i remove the Nas pfsense to a dedicated hardware. after this topic, i have a issue with the bandwitch performance.i have a Gigabit Fiber connection, and with my TVS-663 and CPU at 100%, i can exceed 250mbps. and when i installed ntopng, the performance is worse.......
finally i move the pfsense into the minipc with i5 and AESNI support.
I think that the qnap solution is not yet mature enough to be effective
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@killpilot , thanks for the follow-up. After giving it a lot of thought, I also decided against virtualizing pfSense. I decided it would would be better to run something this critical on dedicated hardware. I ended up going with a different solution (Fortigate) as I wanted something pretty robust with good support. So far it's working well.