Hi everone, basically what the title says. I am just starting my homelab and I am somewhat conflicted on whether I should run Opensense in Proxmox or should I buy a n100 device dedicated for it. What are some of the pros and cons of doind either or. So far in my research I have only come across articles/forum posts explaining how to run Opensense in Proxmox.

  • Gibberish9031@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
    3·
    18 hours ago

    I have been thinking about this as well, but then I see so many people running Opensense in Proxmox and think maybe it’s not that big of an issue.

    • gray@pawb.social
      3·
      10 hours ago

      I ran opnsense in a VM for years with no issue, just recently went to dedicated hardware. Every now and then I’d want to replace a drive or swap the GPU in the host for jellyfin and taking the internet out with it sucks a lot.

      Being able to snapshot opnsense is cool, but opnsense also has a very robust backup and restore system so idk.

    • BlueÆther@no.lastname.nz
      3·
      14 hours ago

      I run opnsense in proxmox, and have done for what must be coming up to 5 years.

      Yes I have fucked up proxmox occasionally, but I use my ‘router’ as my wifi AP. If I have fucked up I can bring internet back up with a single cable swap and a quick config change on the router