You want to make sure your pfSense VM is the first VM to come online and the last one to go down during an ESXi startup/shutdown. If you don’t configure your pfSense VM for automatic startup, you’ll be stuck in the situation I mentioned above should you need to reboot ESXi (Ex: for patches) or shut it down. Either way, this is something to consider so that you’re not dead in the water if pfSense goes down. Or you’ll have to restart pfSense via the ESXi console. This means that should your pfSens VM ever shutdown or go down for some reason, you’ll need to have a backup hardware router to connect the ESXi management interface to in order to access the ESXi web interface. If you connect to the ESXi management interface through pfSense, then you won’t have any access to ESXi if pfSense is down. Let’s start with point one regarding the ESXi management interface. Make sure you configure pfSense for automatic startup in ESXi.What’s your backup plan for the ESXi management interface?.If you’re going down the same path, there are a few things you’ll want to consider: Right now, however, priorities and circumstances mean that virtualization makes the most sense for the moment. Ideally I’d be running it on standalone hardware and I still want to do that. If you’ve arrived here looking for help with that, you’ll want to read my next post instead of this.īefore I could even think about getting Google Fiber up and running without Google’s Fiber Box I first needed to virtualize pfSense. It turns out that it’s simple to get up and running with Google Fiber and pfSense. Given that Google says you have to use their Fiber Box router for service, and given that my old pfSense hardware was recently deceased, I hadn’t thought too much about it until I started working on this project. I had always used pfSense for routing in the past, but then I had the great fortune of becoming a Google Fiber customer.
Before I say anything else I just want to recommend that you give pfSense a solid look for your routing and firewall needs if you haven’t already. Like so many homelabs these days, mine begins with pfSense. I think it’s a good time to take a break to catch up on things here. Once I got things up and running in my last post I got a little carried away with getting things up and running.
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