If you had purchased something more modern, (even an APU, which uses 5-10% of your 2850, and is completely silent) bhyve would be an option.
Which is the general direction I'm headed with pfSense for being able to run a media center or NAS on top. Refurb c1100s are < $600 on fleabay with 8 cores and 72GB ram. http://www.ebay.com/itm/261355969100 We use these for test boxes at ESF, since we boot them off USB, I don't care about the "no drives". If you don't need the ram, an 8GB version is < $300. http://www.ebay.com/itm/261441251762 We pulled all our 2850s and 2950s out of service. They're not worth the power draw (operating costs). I think the only remaining machine from that era we operate is a PE1950 my son uses for a minecraft server. -- Jim > On May 20, 2014, at 12:45, Brian Caouette <bri...@dlois.com> wrote: > > For the price paid it can't be beat. I've seen smaller systems go for much > more so figured I had room to grow. At some point I maybe be able to have to > virtual machines on this unit and use one for a media center or cloud backup > for the home business. Are their packages available for this? I don't really > see anything that leads me to believe pfSense could be used in the way which > is why I'm thinking virtual. What software is available to do virtual > machines? > > On 5/20/2014 12:11 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote: >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Brian Caouette >>> Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2014 12:00 >>> >>> Are we talking fan noise? Hard drive noise? >>> >>> Also a comment was made about power. What are we talking? >> The general comments about how a PE2850 is overkill in the described home >> environment. >> >>> On 5/20/2014 2:59 AM, Giles Coochey wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 20/05/2014 02:12, Chris Bagnall wrote: >>> >>> >>> Forgive me for saying so, but that's a massive >>> overkill for routing a 15Mbps connection. Granted, it'd be >>> entirely appropriate if you were routing multiple gig >>> transits in a datacentre environment where the power >>> consumption might be justified, but in a home environment, >>> you're just burning through electricity for the sake of it. >>> Of course, if you're going to run pfSense as a VM under a >>> hypervisor with several other VMs, then I take all the above >>> back :-) Kind regards, Chris >>> >>> Not to mention that if I ran a PE 2850 at home there >>> would probably be complaints about the noise!!! Those things >>> *scream* in the audible sense!!! >> -- >> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- >> - - >> - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - >> - Principal Consultant 10 West 24th Street #100 - >> - +1 (443) 269-1555 x333 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - >> - - >> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- >> This message is copyright PD Inc, subject to license 20080407P00. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> List mailing list >> List@lists.pfsense.org >> https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list >> > > _______________________________________________ > List mailing list > List@lists.pfsense.org > https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list _______________________________________________ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
