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?

  • bean@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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?

    • BlueÆther@no.lastname.nzEnglish
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      10 months ago

      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