HW with Ryzen CPU

[Wyrm]

Hi all,
I will have this HW configuration:

MB: ASUS MB Sc AM4 TUF B450M-PRO GAMING, AMD B450, 4xDDR4, VGA, mATX
CPU: AMD RYZEN 7 2700, 8-core, 3.2 GHz (4.1 GHz Turbo), 20MB cache, 65W, socket AM4, BOX (Wraith cooler)
RAM 16GB: 2 x DIMM DDR4 8GB 2666MHz CL19 KINGSTON ValueRAM
M2 SSD: ADATA SSD XPG SX8200 PCIe Gen3x4 M.2 2280 240 GB
NET card: Intel Ethernet Server Adapter I350-T2V2, bulk¨

On ASUS board is Realtek RTL8111H NIC 1 port and I have Intel i350 added as more 2 ports.

On this HW should be VMWARE and 2 virtuals - 1 for opnsense(mainly firewall, security, filtering https, sensei, ids maybe) and 1 for Mikrotik (just for wifi central management - capsman)

Is this config good for opnsense or there are some problems with drivers or so ?

Let me know if you have some experiences..

[weust]

Hardware wise it's more a question of ESXi supporting it, with ESXi 6.7 supporting everything afaik but do check the HCL on the VMware website.

I would personally only use the Realtek card for ESXi management (because Realtek = crap), and pass through the the first Intel NIC port.
The second can be the VMswitch uplink.

[Wyrm]

Thanks. I have checked components with vmware and it is ok. I know that Realtek is not much, but i had to select this type of motherboard because another one could not work without graphic card.
Another one was MiniITX and only 1 pcie slot with Intel NIc, but problem with graphics card for fanless use...

[weust]

Realtek for management should be alright. Not much traffic on it then.

Good luck with the build. OPNsense and the options you mentioned should be alright for home use, no doubt.