On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Olivier Mascia <o...@integral.be> wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm looking for advices and best practices when running pfSense (this time it will be 2.3) in a vmware VM. I'm offered to move some resources to a virtual datacenter made of dedicated hardware hosts in clusters, running ESXi 6.0 and vSphere. I have access to such an infrastructure for the next 3 weeks. I have used pfSense in a number of devices and hosts, but never inside a VM, except for experimenting with configurations of pfSense itself. > > I could build up a pfSense 2.3 VM without real difficulties. Installing the integration tools was easy through the included package. Now, what are the pitfalls I should look for? Any shared vmware experience from you will undoubtedly help fine tuning this. > > For now the pfSense VM I configured has these resources: OS declared to vSphere is FreeBSD 10.3 64 bits, 1 socket, 2 cores, 2 GHz reserved, 2 GB RAM, 10 GB HD, 2 network adapters. I'm generally resources-conservative but I could allow much more if it makes sense. > > For these adapters I have the choice between E1000, VMXNET 2, VMXNET 3. I have set them for VMXNET 3 but without background about this being the right-thing-to-do or not. At least it seems to work but I still need to stress test the VM (traffic-wise) a little bit. > > Are there tunings inside pfSense which you could recommend / not live without, based on your experience inside vmware virtual machines? > > Network interfaces settings? All are set for their default pfSense values, which means TCP segmentation offloading and large receive offloading are disabled. Would it make sense to enable those? > > Thanks for any insight you might want to share. > > -- > Meilleures salutations, Met vriendelijke groeten, Best Regards, > Olivier Mascia, integral.be/om >
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