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Hardware and Performance / Hardware overkill for dedicated OpnSense?
« on: November 16, 2024, 08:21:22 pm »
I have OpnSense running on a Fujitsu ESPRIMO P520 E85+ M14W cladding the following hardware:
With this, I'm actually getting the speeds that I pay for with my fiber connection, which is what I was after.
However, I've started wondering if I'm just throwing a lot of untapped performance away with running this machine dedicated to only functioning as my router like this. So I've considered throwing a Proxmox installation on it and instead have OpnSense run in a container/vm with some additional service, like Nextcloud, working on that machine as well.
What do you think? I really don't want to create any significant (or any) decrease in routing performance from doing this. Any suggestions as to how I should approach this analytically? Can I run some performance tests before and after going the Proxmox-route to compare the results?
Thanks.
- Intel i5-4590 @ 3.30GHz
- 12GB DDR3 RAM
- Intel Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T2V2
With this, I'm actually getting the speeds that I pay for with my fiber connection, which is what I was after.
However, I've started wondering if I'm just throwing a lot of untapped performance away with running this machine dedicated to only functioning as my router like this. So I've considered throwing a Proxmox installation on it and instead have OpnSense run in a container/vm with some additional service, like Nextcloud, working on that machine as well.
What do you think? I really don't want to create any significant (or any) decrease in routing performance from doing this. Any suggestions as to how I should approach this analytically? Can I run some performance tests before and after going the Proxmox-route to compare the results?
Thanks.