Creating Virtual Switch in ESXi - for a Virtual Internet Router - 1105

I an effort to let my newest Lenovo SR650 server take over the tasks from the IBM/Lenovo x3650 M4
witch has been doing an awesome job for years. I need a extra virtual switch in the new server, so I can have a virtual router on my 24/7 server routing my internet. Witch is also how it is working today,, with PFsense.
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[@jasonkuehl6985]

Close to the same network setup. Nice work

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Jason Kuehl Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@mister_magister3798]

I thought I was the only one mad enough to have pfsense in vm and internet connected to it. Glad i'm not the only one :D

[@mikeunum]

Me too, haha. So we are 3 now

[@MyPlayHouse]

Nahh I must be on 8 years on this..

[@davidvantongerloo1907]

nice, rebuild of your server farm, aaaaaaand have nice weekend !

[@MyPlayHouse]

It's more like a better server, so I can do more, on less :-)

[@plasmar1]

** I"mma have to re-watch this paying more attention later! ** I virtualize my router/firewall the moment I realized I could use pci passthrough, iommu was really a game changer for me:)..... desktop(s) more than one(windows), nvr(windows), router/firewall(pfsense) are all dedicated vm's:P

[@MyPlayHouse]

Well I make an extra vSwitch instead of passing through the NIC.

[@bits2646]

Thumbs up for the drawing ::D:DD

[@MyPlayHouse]

Thanx :-)

[@rasoulkhandan9334]

Hi dear friend As always, you make great videos, only the first part of the description was in a noisy environment! Be kind Create a cluster of servers to build a supercomputer. For example, teach 10 servers to calculate. "I am a beginner. Explain in simple language with English subtitles" Thank you and I wish you health and well-being.

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Rasoul Khandan Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@pinkvpn]

Enabling passthrough for the Internet NIC and connecting that to the router VM will give you a better performance I pressume.

[@MyPlayHouse]

It does not proforme badly...

[@ijteba666]

Very well demonstrated

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi @ijteba666 Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@ijteba666]

@@MyPlayHouse Literally i never worked on Vmware but it made me so much interested to work on it and i have transferred my infrastructure on Vmware and got some clients and got earned some amount as well by giving my IT services in Vmware domain

[@BDBD16]

This video needs moar ICE COZY!

[@MyPlayHouse]

I do not understand.

[@Cooper3312000]

Lucky, 1G up and down?! We just upgraded here to 600 down and only 30 up :( We are way behind on home Internet speeds here in the US.

[@MyPlayHouse]

Just ran the speedtest : 876.213 Mbit/s Down and 566.832 Mbit/s UP So we also kind of get that speed...

[@mysy2010]

If you use the epon/gpon modem from ISP, that you could try connect more than one 1G ethernet from modem to your server/router, set linux port LAG or binding to get more than 1G link speed from modem to router WAN port when use pppoe client in the Esxi Server VM RouterOS/OpenWRT with binding port. most time ISP will add little more speed rate in their modem link speed, like 1.1G or 1.2G.

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Robert Liu Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@ScottDowneywoundedbear]

I use Untangle on a dedicated old computer which works very well.

[@MyPlayHouse]

Okay,, I was going for less machines running,, it is not as if, I do not have a spare server for a router :-)

[@mamdouh-Tawadros]

Thank you for a great video. One thing to add that pfsense is like truenas are BSD not Linux. 2nd. Would the other virtual machines on the same server, benefit from pfsense firewall?

[@MyPlayHouse]

Yes they are behind PFsense's firewall.

[@ashs5320]

This was an awesome tutorial / overview of running pfSense in vmware. I am curious Morten how do you acquire Vcentre / ESXi licenses? I used to get them through a program with my work and this has since stopped but my Vcenter / ESXi license expires end of the year. Love to keep them going if i can.

[@MyPlayHouse]

What I do, is not something that can be copied. But there is the VMUG program.

[@senaperdiana6434]

or you can just torrent it, if its for lab purposes

[@Prime0pt]

For pfsense VM OS will be Other->FreeBSD

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Prime0pt Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@VioletDragonsProjects]

whats the Performance like with that method you used? have you ever thought about PCI-E Pass Through and have LAGG/LACP configured to your 10G Switch and put WAN in a VLAN ? that way you can have more bandwidth in and out along with VLAN configuration

[@MyPlayHouse]

For my needs,, it is way fast enough. I do "only" have 1Gbit Internet, so no reason to go to 10Gbit yet :-)

[@burtobm]

0:53 wow neat graphics 👌 😆. Good video as always. How's the fish pond coming along?

[@MyPlayHouse]

Yes,, there is NO artist hidden in me :-/ I have a very long pool video that needs editing :-)

[@bobcarpenter1551]

In your (ONT?) adapter, where is the fibre connected? As you said, it looks like it's just you RJ45 and power, with what looks like a coaxial port on the bottom left. (Oh, unless it's powered via PoE? and the connection on the right is the fibre? )

[@MyPlayHouse]

Fiber comes in through the tiny white cable channel on the left of the box.

[@kacper9207]

Super 🖐️

[@MyPlayHouse]

Thank you 👍

[@spooner868]

i already have 2 internet connections from different isp and 2 pfsense routers in failover/loadbalance configuration method for isp used: packet lost or high latency and then 1st router fails 2nd will be ready to work almost immediately

[@MyPlayHouse]

Cool,, would you happen to have a recipe for that?

[@spooner868]

@@MyPlayHouse for dual wan/load balance i use this instuction kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWHIYmaVppJ8o7s and for failover/high avail i use this kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y2KymGilnNCskLs

[@rschrader]

You should sell reproductions of your diagrams on your webstore Morten. I’m sure you keep the original whiteboard drawings safely locked up in your creepy basement vault - with all of your other Viking plunder… 🤪👍

[@MyPlayHouse]

No if you do not clean it right away,, it becomes really hard to clean :-) it's gone!

[@rschrader]

@@MyPlayHouse Too bad. I’m sure you could have got at least $1000USD for a signed original Hjorth diagram… 🙃

[@gonace]

I'm guessing that the "modem" is a simple switch with VLAN support? Since modem stands for (modulator-demodulator) and is used to connect digital equipment to an analog connection.

[@MyPlayHouse]

It might be more of a router, then a modem,, there is no analog.

[@victorshane4134]

Hi, wouldn be simpler if you just pass the network card through to the Pfsense vm? In that way the router can directly use it and there wont be any overhead because of the virtual switch thing.

[@MyPlayHouse]

That could also work..

[@krebosh]

Why not create a VLAN for WAN on the 10Gb switch and make a trunk from it to the server? Much easier imo to have a dedicated VLAN for WAN access if you need to move pfsense to another host or preferably make a cluster.. not very fun having a virtual router on a single host when issues occur.

[@MyPlayHouse]

There are many ways to do this.

[@shetho1]

Are you going to do a video on pfsense

[@MyPlayHouse]

I was just going to migrate or copy the one from the x3650 M4

[@shetho1]

@@MyPlayHouse what a good video that would make

[@kkilcoyne7772]

This maybe an dumb question but do you still need a switch if you are already connected to vrouter?

[@MyPlayHouse]

It's not that dumb,,,, I could do most of what I do without an external switch,, it's mostly to be able to switch server on the fly,, witch I really never do.

[@amessman]

I was just wondering how to do this, I'm trying to get a homelab going in my dorm 😂

[@MyPlayHouse]

Hi Adam Messmann Thank You very much! glad you liked the video :-) Thank you for watching! :-)

[@miner49er39]

I didn’t think anyone drew worse than me 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@MyPlayHouse]

Well maybe you was wrong :-)

[@matthewlandon1697]

Is this pfsense based are you able to pass VLabs across?

[@MyPlayHouse]

Sorry I do not follow ?

[@LuukIsbouts]

It is possible to create vlans on a PFSense VM. You need to connect the LAN port of the PFSense to a trunk portgroup in VMware. If you choose VLAN id 4096 the portgroup becomes a trunk in VMware ESXi. In vCenter you can simply select ‘port trunking’ on your portgroups.

[@matthewlandon1697]

It’s called I can’t spell lol

[@djricky89999]

Hi Morten! I have a server but with a 4G LTE router at home. I would like to purchase a licensed vrouter. And this vrouter will install on ESXI. After installing on ESXI what do you do? create a vswitch?. The vrouter connects to the physical router, but can I take advantage of the bandwidth speed of the vrouter?, Example the vrouter that I bought with the license is 50 megabits. Can I take advantage of all that speed without affecting the physical router that I have is 4G LTE? or you have to have the physical router to work the vrouter?. I hope you understand what I mean. Then the vrouter I would like to connect two virtual machines with vmware workstation you can or it depends of the vrouter if it is compatible? Thanks if you can give me some help.

[@MyPlayHouse]

Install ESXi, make vswitch, and make a virtual router,, like PFsense. A virtual router is vay more powerful than a normal physical router (the cheep home ones)

[@LampJustin]

Excuse me for saying that, but always when I see your videos you explain something in front or near your servers. Please try and do it somewhere else, for me at least it is too loud! You do really interesting stuff, but because of that I mostly can't watch your videos

[@MyPlayHouse]

I am aware of the noise..

[@matthewlandon1697]

First

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