I'm aware of TinyMiniMicro, but this time I'm hoping to purchase new.
I have a small space that I'm fitting this into, it's a structured media cabinet that's mounted in wall.
Use case is opnsense:
-Gigabit Internet (Fios)
-VLAN termination and routing
-IPS
-VPN (client-server, possible site-to-site in the future)
-QoS
-Will be dual-stacking ipv4 and v6, though i doubt that will affect performance at all at the hardware level. worth mentioning.
Right now, I'm looking at either:
NUC11TNHI50L -or- MAYBE Protectli vp4630
I feel like the NUC (wish I could get vPro.. can't find that sku) would be good, even though I need RAM and an SSD (should have a spare NVMe laying around) would make these two pretty comparable in price, I like the option of coreboot for the protectli, but I also like that the NUC has an i5.
I really don't want to have to replace this for a while, I think my biggest concern is running out of CPU. Reason for that concern, is that once I move and get my lab back up again (vSphere cluster, 3-5 nodes) I don't know what my traffic will look like, routing between VLAN's.
I know IPS will take a big chunk out of CPU.
Are there any other units I should consider? Again, would really like new, and not above $600-ish (I know the protecli is more, but coreboot WOULD be nice.. unsure about bios updates). I'm based in the US.
I have a small space that I'm fitting this into, it's a structured media cabinet that's mounted in wall.
Use case is opnsense:
-Gigabit Internet (Fios)
-VLAN termination and routing
-IPS
-VPN (client-server, possible site-to-site in the future)
-QoS
-Will be dual-stacking ipv4 and v6, though i doubt that will affect performance at all at the hardware level. worth mentioning.
Right now, I'm looking at either:
NUC11TNHI50L -or- MAYBE Protectli vp4630
I feel like the NUC (wish I could get vPro.. can't find that sku) would be good, even though I need RAM and an SSD (should have a spare NVMe laying around) would make these two pretty comparable in price, I like the option of coreboot for the protectli, but I also like that the NUC has an i5.
I really don't want to have to replace this for a while, I think my biggest concern is running out of CPU. Reason for that concern, is that once I move and get my lab back up again (vSphere cluster, 3-5 nodes) I don't know what my traffic will look like, routing between VLAN's.
I know IPS will take a big chunk out of CPU.
Are there any other units I should consider? Again, would really like new, and not above $600-ish (I know the protecli is more, but coreboot WOULD be nice.. unsure about bios updates). I'm based in the US.