Install pfSense on VMware ESXI 7 (Standalone ESXI)

Are you running pfSense as virtual machine? let us know in the comments

I had a big problem for that aspect of making my VLANS passing-through trunk , and i think your video solved it ! Thank you very very very much man.

you can't achieve 10Gbps with pfsense on vmware ESXi 7. Maximum I got is 3,5Gbps on 10Gbps fiber

Thank you!

why does your ESXi GUI look so different than mine? All I did was download ESXi 7.0 and install it bare metal and then I logged on through the web UI. Is this what the Vsphere side of it looks like or something?

Thanks for the video. I don't have any external switch. I have VM's tagged with vlans and one VM untagged. all of them get IP via DHCP from pfsense VM. only untagged VM has internet access, tagged VM's have the IP from pfsense but no internet traffic.

as soon as I started configuring the interfaces my web client went down.

If I already have esxi running with 10 vms and I plan to implement pfsense will I need to re create all my vms or can I setup pfsense normally and the adjust the new vms networks

How were you able to make all the vmnic work show up and active. I have a desktop machine

processor: i5
cpu: 3.2GHz
ram: 32BG
nic1: Realtek (connected and active)
nic2: Intel (connected and active)

with esxi 6.5 installed. When I try to create a virtual switch and connect to another physical nic, I get the message, "There is no freww physcal adapters to attach to this virtual switch" Please assist. Thanks.

Thank you! Small question. My ISP requires DHCP and VLAN 300 enabled. Do I apply the VLAN 300 only on the ESXI server or also on the PfSense?

Didn't realized I needed to put the lan leg of PFSENSE into trunk mode in addition to my phys switch port. Thanks man.

wonder full video... thanks a lot for such a good video., explained very nicely

Perfect! Subbed

great video. btw, pls explain why you setup LAN port group? doesn't appear to connect to anything. You are only using ALL + ISP for your two NICs? what do you use the LAN port group for?

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Can pfsense network bridging be used on ESXi? I have a 6-port mini-PC using one port for management purposes, and one for the ISP/external link and one for the internal subnet. I would like to use the remaining 3 ports for the internal subnet also.

Excellent Video... helped me a lot !! Thanks..

You are TOP. Thanks a lot. I was lost with my first installation of ESXi and you helped me out. THANKS!

Very well demonstrated and explained! Good work!