pfsense is a free network firewall software with capabilities envied by its commercial counterparts. The load balancing mechanism is provided by a plugin called HAProxy In this configuration we have deployed two pfsense VMs, one on ESXi1 and one on ESXi2 and configured them in HA. On a previous part we made a note of …
So let’s spin up 3 Ubuntu server 22.04 VMs on our vSphere. I recommend using the Ubuntu cloud image and a VM template. To find out how to create such a VM template follow this post. We are going to need it anyway later so save some time and create it now. If you do …
NOTE: The plan was to publish all the blogs when I finished the deployment. Unfortunately, the deployment is paused due to heavy workload but I am publishing the first few parts already Planning My home lab consists of two ESXi 8.0 servers, a QNAP for Network storage, switches and firewalls. A LOT of firewalls 🙂 …