Moving from ESXi to Proxmox

[bonkas]

Hi guys,

I have been using ESXi for a few years now in my home to host a Few Windows OS's, PFSense and FreePBX.

I have a few questions before I take the plunge and dig deeper into Proxmox.

My setup consists of a HP ML110 (Not powerfull but suits my needs for speed, power draw and noise)
It has 3 NIC's. 1 Onboard and a Dual Intel PCI-E NIC. - The Onboard NIC is used as the general NIC for the VM's and Monitoring. The Intel Dual NIC is dedicated to LAN/WAN use by PFSense, The WAN adaptor also has vlan tagging ID of 10 set to the interface.

I am experiencing poor disk performance due to no cached disk controller with the current ESXi software.

I am a GUI oriented guy but will dig into the command line if required by following documentation or suggestions of others but not very knowledgable in this regard.

I guess it all boils down to: Can I easily duplicate my NIC setup as above in the Proxmox GUI?
What is performance like without a cached disk controller? I know I can use Hyper-V to increase this performance... But would Prefer Proxmox.
Are there any issues with the OS's above that I should be aware of? Windows Server 2012 R2, FreePBX and PFSense.

Regards

 

[pixel]

I guess it all boils down to: Can I easily duplicate my NIC setup as above in the Proxmox GUI?
What is performance like without a cached disk controller? I know I can use Hyper-V to increase this performance... But would Prefer Proxmox.
Are there any issues with the OS's above that I should be aware of? Windows Server 2012 R2, FreePBX and PFSense.

Regards

Yes, you can duplicate that NIC setup. guest nics have an option for vlan tag.
Dont know much about storage.
windows server should be fine. pfsense should as well, all the bsds work well in qemu/kvm.
not familiar with freebpx. if it works well in vmware, should be fine in proxmox.

 

[jva1601]

Like you I used ESXi but for the last 3 years I have replaced ESXi for the Proxmox hypervisor. I have used IPcop and Pfsense with success on Proxmox. You will have to do some command line editing to setup the bridge for Pfsense, which is easy to do. This tutorial helped me set it up. http://joealdeguer.com/how-to-virtualize-pfsense-firewall-including-using-virtio-drivers/