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.

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    17 hours ago

    A problem in proxmox means no router. Are you comfortable resolving issues without Internet access?

    • Gibberish9031@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      3·
      17 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·
        8 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·
        13 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