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virtualizing PFSense. What else works besides ESXi for virtual networking? (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by kalpol@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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with the demise of ESXi, I am looking for alternatives. Currently I have PfSense virtualized on four physical NICs, a bunch of virtual ones, and it works great. Does Proxmox do this with anything like the ease of ESXi? Any other ideas?

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[–] kalpol@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (31 children)

Admittedly I have not dug too deeply into Proxmox but its learning curve appears kinda steep.

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 5 points 9 months ago (25 children)

its not too bad. i switched from esxi to proxmox about 2 years ago.

i run a virtualized opnsense with 2 nic's passed through and another 2 virt, so it can be done

[–] b3an@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Hey! I have been using ESXi about three year now. I have two identical NIC I bought. One for WAN and one for LAN. I also discovered I had to use the onboard LAN port (3rd port!) just to be able to access the web control. (Is that normal?)

Anyway, I want to move to Proxmox, and then virtualize my OPNSense like I have on ESXi.

I get so confused by how the adapters should be. Ideally I would love to have the LAN connect to a (dumb) switch, and provide Wi-Fi. But one thing I never tried before is a VLAN to protect the LAN from the Wi-Fi traffic, but still allowing some systems to still work like streaming data from the wired PC on the LAN to the NVIDIA Shield Pro. But then keeping the Alexa/Echo system on a more restricted WiFi.

Can I do all this? I’m thinking I can, but. The hurdle of learning vlans and configuring the new Proxmox (which I’m pretty damn new to) is a daunting challenge.

I’m ready to try this though. I have a 4G wireless plus WiFi system to keep the other half happy while I tinker to get it all working.

Thoughts/Tips? Anyone?

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

All doable, you might need a managed or smart switch though

I have 4 bland at home plus untagged all through proxmox and a smart switch

  • one for wan
  • one for web facing servers
  • one for iot
  • one for guest wifi
  • rest of lab is untagged
[–] b3an@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Notes about the switch. What is tagging? The purpose and where?

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 2 points 9 months ago

vlan tags, they make vlans work

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