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17.7 Legacy Series / Re: ESXi 6.5.0 U1 booting goes very wrong
« on: October 30, 2017, 09:57:35 am »
weust,
I have over a dozen virtual OPNsense instances running on several VMware hosts (6.0 and 6.5) without any problems, but.......I tend to play safe.
All these OPNsense instances run Rock Solid.
The largest OPNsense instance has 9 Network Cards, runs 84 IPsec Site-to-Site VPNs and provides network services for 25 Windows servers, 12 Linux servers and over 300 workstations.
When I setup an OPNsense virtual machine, I use the following settings:
Compatibility "ESXi 6.0 and later (VM version 11)"
SCSI controller "LSI Logic Parallel"
Network Adapters "E1000"
Guest OS "Other ==> FreeBSD (64-bit)".
During the installation of OPNsense, I just take all the defaults.
Setting things up this way never gives me problems.
In general, I try to stay away from the vmxnet3 network cards, because they also gave me issues in several other Guest OS-es (like messing-up the network after VMware tools update, etc.)
If you setup like this, does it still give you problems?
Kind regards,
Bert
I have over a dozen virtual OPNsense instances running on several VMware hosts (6.0 and 6.5) without any problems, but.......I tend to play safe.
All these OPNsense instances run Rock Solid.
The largest OPNsense instance has 9 Network Cards, runs 84 IPsec Site-to-Site VPNs and provides network services for 25 Windows servers, 12 Linux servers and over 300 workstations.
When I setup an OPNsense virtual machine, I use the following settings:
Compatibility "ESXi 6.0 and later (VM version 11)"
SCSI controller "LSI Logic Parallel"
Network Adapters "E1000"
Guest OS "Other ==> FreeBSD (64-bit)".
During the installation of OPNsense, I just take all the defaults.
Setting things up this way never gives me problems.
In general, I try to stay away from the vmxnet3 network cards, because they also gave me issues in several other Guest OS-es (like messing-up the network after VMware tools update, etc.)
If you setup like this, does it still give you problems?
Kind regards,
Bert