Customize Settings for pfSense VMīefore we power on the VM, we will click on Actions > Autostart > Enable, to ensure that the VM will automatically start everything ESXi rebooting.Īfter you power on the machine, just follow on screen instruction to install pfSense. We will repeat the same step to add the dual ports to pfSense VM. Lastly, We will add the Dell I350 Ethernet by selecting Add other device > PCI device.
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You will click on Host device and select Datastore ISO file and navigate to the location where you upload the ISO file. We will remove the USB controller and Network Adapter as we do not need them. I will use OpenVPN and traffic filters on my pfSense so 4 CPUs with 16GB of RAM (16GB for Reservation) and 16GB Hard Disk would be more than sufficient to run pfSense. I’ll leave this to you to decide as you can always go back and change it later on. According to Netgate Documents, pfSense version 2.4.x under lying OS is FreeBSD 11 (64 bit), so we will choose Guest OS family as Other and Guest OS Version as FreeBSD 11 (64 bit).įor the hardware setting, it really depends on the current system that you run your ESXi on and what kind of services you will be running on your pfSense. Next, we will create a new VM by clicking on Virtual Machine > Create/ Register VM. This will enable us to use the physical adapter with pfSense VM instead of using VM Network Adapter. Upload pfSense ISO by Navigate to Storage > Datastore browser > Uploadīefore we begin creating the VM, we will toggle passthrough for the Dell Intel Ethernet I350 Dual Port. Netgate ADI is for Netgate Device only such as the SG-5100 Security Gateway or XG-7100 1U Security Gateway. You will select the AMD64 (64 bit) architecture. pfSense ISO file can be downloaded from the official site. The first step to create a VM on ESXi is to obtain the OS image (ISO file) from pfSense and upload it to ESXi Datastore. I will use my AmpliFi Alien Wifi 6 Wireless Router in Bridge Mode as my Wireless Access Point (WAP). You will have a routing conflict because your machine won’t know if 192.168.0.1 refers to the local WiFi gateway or to the same address on the VPN. Now you are trying to connect to the VPN from an internet cafe which is using the same subnet for its WiFi LAN. For instance, suppose you use the popular 192.168.0.0/24 as your private LAN subnet. If you decide to host an OpenVPN server on your pfSense VM, having the same subnet as where you would remotely tunnel into your home network, cross-site IP numbering conflicting is expected. When creating a LAN subnet, you should choose a unique numbering that not commonly used as a default subnet on many routers in public places such as 10.0.0.0/24 or 192.168.0.0/24. Below is the network diagram: Network Diagram for class A subnet 10.13.2.0/23 This will be a dedicated NIC for pfSense VM, which will be operating in passthrough mode in ESXi. I purchased an additional PCI-E NIC Dell Intel Ethernet I350 Dual Port 1Gb Server Adapter Low Profile and installed on Dell R620 PCI-E Slot.
I run ESXi on the Dell R620 that equipped with Broadcom® 5720 Quad-Port GbE Rack Network Daughter Card (NDC) 1G BASE- T . We will take a look at the hardware setup and the network diagram before we go over the installation process.
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In this post, I will show you how to install pfSense as a Virtual Machine (VM) on ESXi 7.0.