You kinda answered your own question there. Log into a vm on that lan and ssh 
or https into the vm or use the vmware console and drop to shell.

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> On Sep 30, 2014, at 9:15 AM, Rizul khanna <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 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 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
>>>>> 
>>>>> [email protected]  |  +91 8595370298, +91 9501074400 | 
>>>>> http://www.linkedin.com/pub/rizul-khanna/39/81/a3b  | 
>>>>> http://virtualizationforyou.blogspot.in/  |
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