Virtual pfSense on FreeNAS - thoughts and performance
I've been running a virtualised pfSense VM on FreeNAS in my HP MicroServer. It's stable and performs well, but with some caveats. In this short review video, I describe what these are.
00:00 - Introduction
00:40 - Hardware overview
01:07 - Software overview
01:30 - PPPoE does not work under bhyve, but worked under VirtualBox
02:05 - Virtual machine overview
02:43 - pfSense system dashboard
04:30 - CPU utilisation with heavy traffic
04:59 - Dual WAN gateway group configuration
06:09 - Speed test results (traffic shaper on)
07:04 - Disabling the traffic shaper and 2nd speed test run
08:00 - CPU utilisation with heavy traffic - actual numbers (top)
09:45 - Final thoughts