RabidSmurf
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- Jun 30, 2009
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Hey Everyone,
Let me preface this by saying I am by no means a networking or ESX expert and this is not a production environment just a home setup. I am slowly attempting to virtualize as many services (file/web serving, etc) as possible for the purpose of power consumption and just to see if I can learn stuff in the process.
I would like to attempt to move a discrete pfsense box acting as my home network's router/firewall to a VM on my ESXi host. So my initial thought is to give the pfSense VM a dedicated two port NIC via PCI Pass through to act as WAN and LAN interfaces.
I am just a little confused as to how to get vSphere/ESX management functioning when the ESX host currently gets its IP from the router which would no longer work if the router is actually a guest VM (Since it won't be running at startup).
Has anyone else worked out a solution? I am sort of thinking dedicated NIC's between the client and host for ESX management/vSphere purposes but I am not sure how to set this up.
Appreciate your feedback.
Let me preface this by saying I am by no means a networking or ESX expert and this is not a production environment just a home setup. I am slowly attempting to virtualize as many services (file/web serving, etc) as possible for the purpose of power consumption and just to see if I can learn stuff in the process.
I would like to attempt to move a discrete pfsense box acting as my home network's router/firewall to a VM on my ESXi host. So my initial thought is to give the pfSense VM a dedicated two port NIC via PCI Pass through to act as WAN and LAN interfaces.
I am just a little confused as to how to get vSphere/ESX management functioning when the ESX host currently gets its IP from the router which would no longer work if the router is actually a guest VM (Since it won't be running at startup).
Has anyone else worked out a solution? I am sort of thinking dedicated NIC's between the client and host for ESX management/vSphere purposes but I am not sure how to set this up.
Appreciate your feedback.