HA with One Physical Node and One Virtual Node

[spetrillo]

Hello all,

I would like to setup HA with my OPNsense nodes, with a physical node and virtual node. Once I get HA setup I am going to failover to my virtual node and remove the physical node, so I can then build a new virtualization host and make another virtual node.

Any issues in getting the physical node and virtual node to work?

Thanks,
Steve

[mrk45k]

You need the same interfaces names. I guess that could be a problem.

[spetrillo]

The interface names I give them or the hard interface names.

The issue I see is the pfSync interface. One would be off the physical node and the other would have to go through the hypervisor.

[mrk45k]

The "hard" interface names. ethX,ensX,igbX,igcX a.s.o
You can use a lagg/trunk to avoid that problem.
if you have several ethernet ports at the virtual machine you can passthrough the ethernet port.