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?

  • kalpol@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    31·
    10 months ago

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

    • anamethatisnt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      There’s multiple guides on virtualizing pfsense in proxmox, but the easiest is to simply pci passthrough the nics you wanna use.
      I do recommend you leave a physical nic for proxmox itself to maintain LAN access to it if your pfsense is down.

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      Proxmox is quite simple. As a former VCP, I find Proxmox more intuitive to use.

      If you need specific help with Proxmox and/or ZFS, you might also look at posting on https://www.practicalzfs.com

      And +1 for using OPNsense

    • kylian0087@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      From my understanding is that Proxmox is one of the more easy platforms to learn. I must say iI never used it personally.