Reprovision pfsense onto bare-metal

morey-tech commented 5 months ago

The central router for the network, pfSense, is currently provisioned as a VM on venus (Proxmox). pfSense has performance issues when running virtualized. To address this, reprovision venus as a dedicated host for pfSense.

[ ] Migrate unifi VM to phobos (or replacement host if #15 goes first).
[x] Backup pfSense VM.
[x] Flash USB with pfSense installer.
[x] Provision venus with pfSense USB.
[ ] Restore backup to pfSense.
[ ] Address any inconsistency from network interface changes.

This will require network downtime.

morey-tech commented 2 months ago

Running into this bug getting into the bios.

morey-tech commented 2 months ago

The pfSense install requires that the WAN interface is set up correctly to connect to the internet. However, it doesn't provide the PPoE options required to establish the internet connection.

Consider reviewing the Proxmox install guide for pfSense to see if that could address issues faced when virtualized.

morey-tech commented 2 months ago

The only difference was that I updated CPU type from the default kvm64 to host.

morey-tech commented 2 months ago

I'll close this for now as I'm not actively having pfSense issues with it virtualized in Proxmox.

morey-tech / homelab

Reprovision pfsense onto bare-metal #16