[pfSense] Autostart

2014-10-02 Thread Brian Caouette
I know pfsense will autoboot when power is turned on but in vmware it doesn't seem to be the case. We just lost power at home and pfsense never came back up until I connected to vmware to turn the virtual system back on. Is there a way to autostart on occasions like this when we loose power? A

Re: [pfSense] Autostart

2014-10-02 Thread Erik Anderson
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Brian Caouette bri...@dlois.com wrote: Is there a way to autostart on occasions like this when we loose power? Under your ESXi host's configuration tab, there a Virtual Machine Startup/Shutdown section that you can use to set various VMs to start up automatically

Re: [pfSense] Autostart

2014-10-02 Thread Ryan Coleman
You can set delays. I use this for my VMs that have host folders for others and they stage the boots by seconds or minutes depending on the size of the drives in those VMs. It’s very helpful. Check under Host Preferences, if you need more detailed information let me know and I’ll look tomorrow