pfsense & FreeNAS

[Ins0mnyteq]

Im looking at building a NAS with FreeNAS, however im getting bored with the traditional Router (Cisco WRVS4400) and want o play around with pfsense, is there a way to get these on the same machine Properly,I read that FreeNAS doesnt work well in Virtual environments...what about pfsense? would it be better to Run them in separate boxes?

 

[danswartz]

pfsense works fine virtual. i run it on esxi just fine. can't speak to freenas.

 

[Ins0mnyteq]

so initally i bought some cheap components(g3220,asus B81-e,16Gb ram) to build a free nas server for Plex and some backups, but i like the idea of Pfsense, i just dont wanna have two more machines running in my office if i dont have to.

 

[peanuthead]

FreeNAS works just fine virtual.

 

[Riccochet]

pfsense running fine under hyper-v and esxi. I don't use FreeNAS so I wouldn't know.

 

[danswartz]

FreeNAS works just fine virtual.

I do remember some complaints with freebsd (not freenas per-se) that if you passed in some storage controllers (lsi?), you could get interrupt storms, but that's all I remember...

 

[Nate7311]

I can also confirm that pfSense and FreeNAS can both run simultaneously without issue on ESXi. On my FreeNAS box I used internal hardware RAID storage and just provided the VM with a virtual disk as opposed to passing anything through direct.

 

[peanuthead]

On my FreeNAS box I used internal hardware RAID storage and just provided the VM with a virtual disk as opposed to passing anything through direct.

That is exactly what I do for one of my labs.