1TB 2.5" HDD for Hypervisor system

[cesmith9999]

from lost_benji

• PFSense works best on hardware, regardless of those who insist on trying to virtualise it.

I would like to Virtualise my router. however, there are issues of W(D)AF (Wife (Daughter) acceptance factor) where this needs to be a separate piece of hardware so that if the server goes down, Internet does not go down with it.

Chris

 

[weust]

But if your physical router goes down, so does your internet connection.
What is the difference? Or is it that the W&D can re-connect the power to the physical router themselves, instead of you having to mess around with the VM?

 

[cesmith9999]

the difference is that my server can reboot (patch) or I can just shut it down for a few days and my other internet access is not affected.

 

[weust]

Just in case I missed it, you have a cluster?

 

[cesmith9999]

at home. not yet. looking at doing that in the future. but I need a 2nd server. Trying to figure out how I want to do that. if I want to do a shared SAS or go with the new shared nothing cluster in Windows Server 10.

At work, I am not at liberty to discuss...

I have a spare machine at home that can easily be a router just lying around the house.

 

[weust]

I am going to stick to one machine. Nothing important that can't be (temporary) solved with another device.

It's too bad there are no NUCs with dual LAN.
That might make me build a cluster then, but using VLANs to pull everything over a single 1Gbit NIC isn't very nice...

 

[cesmith9999]

Zotac is releasing a new sff PC with dual lan (I have been looking for that too).

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[weust]

Hmm, interesting...

I got my PlayStation set up in pfsense to not be in a DMZ but in the LAN now, it's the right NAT and Rules setup. So that eliminates a port, and don't need ISCSI anymore too since I can't use that they at I was hoping I could use it.

Need to rethink some options again now...

 

[Lost-Benji]

Even Pfsense is more up to date security wise than most of the router firmwares available. Also it is used to be cheaper to set up a router distribution than to get the top of the line Atheros rebranded router and still run into the limits with a high # connections and dead slow interfaces.

....and it breaks even quicker too.

 

[Lost-Benji]

Spazoid, I know what I will do and how to do it. The topic was purely about the hard drives to use.
Nothing more. The de-railing wasn't my fault?

Hang on, you tried to end the thread at post #29 then you decide to have another come-back two posts later with this response:

You came to the forums and asked a question: "1TB 2.5" HDD for Hypervisor system"

You listed a heap of things to use it for and then asked for advice, for which is what you got.
You didn't like the answers and started to argue even when your own reasoning isn't sound.

You then decide to keep going anyway....

Torrents in a VM on a mirrored array holding your other VM's, if the array fails, you loose more than just your porn downloads.