Hi everone, basically what the title says. I am just starting my homelab and I am somewhat conflicted on whether I should run Opensense in Proxmox or should I buy a n100 device dedicated for it. What are some of the pros and cons of doind either or. So far in my research I have only come across articles/forum posts explaining how to run Opensense in Proxmox.
I’ve run OPNsense as a VM for a few years now. I have it set up on HA and have gone into PVE and noticed that it failed over and failed back without me noticing at all a week earlier. I like being able to snapshot it before updates, though updates are always flawless.
I have the 2 ethernet ports on each node named the same and that seems to work fine. I can also live migrate it without it dropping a ping in order to update the host node’s OS, then migrate back.
I wouldn’t do it any other way, but it might take some time to figure out how to set up so it fails over properly.
Interesting point definately something to keep in mind.