i'm not suggesting pfsense be run inside a VM, i am suggesting pfsense provide VM functionality.... i'm fully aware the VM's shortcomings, i manage a 14TB ESX cluster let me say that again...
i am suggesting pfsense provide VM functionality.... "cloud --> pfsense --> os --> service" On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:03 PM, RB <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 17:42, pfsense sense <[email protected]> wrote: > > has anyone considered the possibility of intergrating xen with pfsense ? > > > > i might be loosing my mind but wouldn't it be nice to have a pfsense > running > > on harware and a vistualization environemnt that allow us to install our > > OS's of choice perfectly protected behind pfsense ? > > > > does anything else think it's a good idea ? > > Regardless of what virtual appliance vendors would like to tell you, > network security solutions aren't particularly well-suited for > virtualization. Response times will never be as good as those on the > raw hardware, and there are more subtle concerns with the added > complexity, particularly in failover situations. Even more > disconcerting is exposing the hypervisor within which the rest of your > presumably sensitive infrastructure runs to edge security concerns. > > That said, there's nothing stopping you from running on an HVM-aware > solution - I personally use Linux KVM on a Phenom 98xx, and Xen has at > least some HVM support. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org > >
