On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Eugen Leitl <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 03:53:54PM -0400, Chris Buechler wrote: > >> That's not the normal experience from what I've seen, sounds specific >> to something in particular you're doing. I believe every environment >> I've seen that routes between VLANs within ESX handles the VLANs >> entirely at the ESX level, with one vswitch per VLAN and the firewall >> connected to the individual vswitches, maybe that's the difference. >> >> Running inside of VMware isn't nearly as fast as running on equivalent >> bare metal, but most of the time you don't need that kind of >> performance, 300 Mbps is easily achievable with e1000 NICs and >> moderately new (anything with VT) server hardware. I've been on dozens > > Chris, how much memory do you recommend for a pfSense ESXi instance, > which handles 4 guests (one IP address each), 100 MBit/s switched > setup? Do I need 1+ GByte, or can I risk allocating just 512 > MBytes to the guest? >
"It depends". Virtual sizing no diff from physical. Depends on simultaneous connections, what packages and configurations they use, etc. I use 128 MB RAM and 2 GB disks on most of my test and dev boxes, they're mostly pretty basic though. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
