hyper-V in desktop machine (core 2 Deo 2 GB Ram and 250 GB in HD)
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@DustinB3403 said:
pfsense is a linux distro.
No, the name pfSense itself refers to the fact that it is FreeBSD. There is no Linux anywhere near it.
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@DustinB3403 said:
But the Hypervisor shouldn't care what the ISO is. It just gets run as a machine, within another machine.
Main issue is lack of PV drivers.
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@IT-ADMIN said:
Because I just check on pfsense forum and I find some people complaining about some issue when using pfsense in hyper-v
It would not be expected to work. FreeBSD doesn't run on Azure either, yet.
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The issue specifically reside in nic and traffic speed according to what I had found
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@IT-ADMIN said:
The issue specifically reside in nic and traffic speed according to what I had found
Which is controlled by the PV drivers (or the lack thereof.)
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what do you mean by pv drivers sir
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ParaVirtualized Drivers
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Here's a description of PV Drivers and why they should be used.
http://discussions.citrix.com/topic/239566-what-does-pv-drivers-mean/
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@DustinB3403 said:
http://discussions.citrix.com/topic/239566-what-does-pv-drivers-mean/
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i follow your opinion and choose XenServer, the XenCenter look great and has a nice GUI user friendly, but i remark that XenServer consume too much RAM, almost half of my RAM memory, in this case i will have only 1 GB RAM for guest (in my situation 2 guest) freePBX will get 500 MB and pfsense will get 500 MB, i don't think that it will be enough ??
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Does all hypervisors consume such memory or only XenServer ???
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Pretty much every Hypervisor is going to consume at least 2 GB of memory.
Without going out and searching for the minimum my self. But 2GB isn't really much at all.
Granted it is on your system though.
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Any reason you can't increase the amount of RAM? The cost should be minimal.
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@Dashrender said:
Any reason you can't increase the amount of RAM? The cost should be minimal.
sure i'm planning to do that, i will add another 2 GB, i hope the CPU work fine because there is no way to increase !
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@Dashrender said:
Any reason you can't increase the amount of RAM? The cost should be minimal.
I'll 2nd that
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@IT-ADMIN In my (limited) experience you run out of RAM (and HDD I/O) long before you run out of CPU
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@MattSpeller said:
@IT-ADMIN In my (limited) experience you run out of RAM (and HDD I/O) long before you run out of CPU
i hope so
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Is this for personal use? If so I can understand using this setup, but for production, no way.
Though @scottalanmiller will say that even in home use this probably shouldn't be done, instead host these on services like DigitalOcean will provide better service, etc - granted the cost will be significant comparatively.
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will be in production environment but in a very small office (4 computers), it is only a garage but do some administrative task, i want to connect them via vpn to our HQ and deploy 4 ip telephone
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for this reason i don't want to power 2 machine 24/24 only to server 4 computers and 4 telephone, so i decided to host pfsense and freePBX in one machine (xenserver)
