OPNsense Forum
Archive => 19.1 Legacy Series => Topic started by: Kruemel on February 06, 2019, 10:25:18 pm
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Hi,
I want to migrate my OPNSense installation running on APU2C4 hardware to VMWare vSphere 6.5 U2 for performance reasons.
So I exported my configuration on production side and deployed a fresh installation of OPNSense on a vSphere VM. I created all interfaces with same names as on my hardware installation, then imported my production configuration. After rebooting, I re-assigned the physical interfaces to new virtual ones and thought I was ready to go. The VM booted and I get to the point where all interfaces are listed with IP addresses. But then the system freezes. I don't get any menue and can't ssh into the machine.
My guess is: I haven't installed any plugins yet, such as ACME, freeRadius, haproxy... things like that. Can this root cause this behaviour? Are there any best practices to get a physical OPNSense installation migrated to virtual?
Thanks and best regards
Kruemel
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That's highly unlikely for a root cause.
As a first troubleshooting step you can verifiy if it is updated to 19.1.1 with the vmware-tools plugin installed.
In terms of best practices, matching the drivers - here VMware tools - to the environment would be the second on a list after applying the latest updates.