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Title: [SOLVED] Virtual or Metal?
Post by: albercuba on January 18, 2019, 10:23:32 am

Hi everyone,

is there any downside on using OPNSense as a virtual machine instead of as a metal server?

Title: Re: Virtual or Metal?
Post by: weust on January 18, 2019, 12:41:25 pm

That depends on your use case.
Home vs work.

For home using a VM usually is fine, for work I would like it on metal.

Title: Re: Virtual or Metal?
Post by: albercuba on January 18, 2019, 01:15:40 pm

It will be for work.

The advantages I see in the virtual setup is that VMs are easier to maintain and recover. I know it adds other attack surfaces but my company is not on anyone's radar, so the chances of someone specifically targeting us are pretty close to 0.

Title: Re: Virtual or Metal?
Post by: weust on January 18, 2019, 10:49:24 pm

It's your risk to take ;-)

Title: Re: Virtual or Metal?
Post by: Brent Dacus on January 20, 2019, 07:10:47 pm

metal

Just old school I guess...

Title: Re: [SOLVED] Virtual or Metal?
Post by: bartjsmit on January 21, 2019, 07:33:56 pm

Virtual firewalls do have some advantages ;)

- Adjust resources depending on demand
- High availability without the complexity of CARP
- VLAN's presented as virtual NIC's
- Snapshots to quickly roll back failed changes
- Never get locked out of a remote console
- Simplified hardware compatibility

Bart...