How can I do that? I generally attach a NIC from LAN interface to another
VM and login and configure the pfSense using 192.168.1.1, the pfSense
machine is thus controlled remotely.



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On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Jason Whitt <[email protected]> wrote:

> Are you able to login to the pfsense vm and see what is using the cpu?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Sep 30, 2014, at 8:37 AM, Rizul khanna <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Jason,
>
> Nopes, I checked mulitple times and all I can say is that as soon as I
> connect the pfSense machine's NIC with my public-cum-mgmt port group on the
> dvSwitch, CPU of any of the host(s) in the cluster shoots to 60-70% from
> the normal 4-5%. I have very consolidation ratio as of now, only 2-6 VMs
> per host. As soon the NIC is disconnected, the CPU consumption drops
> vertically and it is fairly visible and noticable.
>
>
>
> Thanks and Regards,
>
> *Rizul Khanna*
>
> [email protected]  |  +91 8595370298, +91 9501074400 |
> http://www.linkedin.com/pub/rizul-khanna/39/81/a3b  |
> http://virtualizationforyou.blogspot.in/  |
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 7:57 PM, Jason Whitt <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Have you looked at your provisioning of all the vm's on that host? Any
>> cpu over-provisioning issues, contention, etc.
>>
>> Are there any ip conflicts or clans that aren't applied?
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Sep 30, 2014, at 1:59 AM, Rizul khanna <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>>
>> We are trying to use pfsense with dvswitch in our virtual environment,
>> where we wish to filter traffic to our VMs directly from pfsense. Our VMs
>> are windows based terminal servers and we want to restrict IPs/ Ports
>> accessible on them.
>>
>>
>> Our Mgmt and VM N/W portgroup is the same in the dvportgroup and whenever
>> while configuring the pfsense machine I connect the pfsense machine’s NIC
>> to the mgmt-public dvportgroup, the CPU utilization of any of the ESXi
>> hosts/ all the hosts increases from 5%-60% unexpectedly. We use ESXi 5.5 U1
>> with single socket Intel Xeon 2690 10 x 2.99 GHz processors on all our ESXi
>> hosts in the cluster. We have to implement the firewall in the Virtual
>> Environment, but unable to do so, please suggest something.
>>
>>
>> I can be contacted on [email protected] and
>> [email protected]
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks and Regards,
>>
>> *Rizul Khanna*
>>
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>> http://www.linkedin.com/pub/rizul-khanna/39/81/a3b  |
>> http://virtualizationforyou.blogspot.in/  |
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