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Opensense/Firewall on Proxmox VE vs dedicated device (lemmy.ml)

submitted 20 hours ago by Gibberish9031@lemmy.ml to c/homelab@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

In my home lab I have them separate the OPNSense box has full performance on its own HW, only needs to be patched once in a while and is super stable.

I have managed to crash / lockup one of my proxmox hosts at least once while messing around with HW past though or by giving a guest enough cores to slow the whole box down.

Family never gets interrupted playing games or streaming Netflix with my lab separate from the critical internet service.

New versions of OPNsense installed with ZFS support snapshots before upgrading natively sort of taking one of the promox vm tricks out of the pro list making it neutral.