pfSense Transparent Bridge Firewall + VMware ESXi

You have setup pfSense as a VM via the OVA.

Your VM that you want to filter its traffic is on a portgroup on a vSwitch with no uplink.

pfSense has 2 NICs – 1. WAN – Using a portgroup that has internet access 2. LAN – Using the same portgroup/vswitch as your VM that needs its traffic filtered.

Turn on promiscuous mode on all vSwitches being used by pfSense and the VM.

Traffic will not pass without promiscuous mode!

Disable VR (vSphere Replication) on VM

You have long removed SRM/vSphere replication.

You discovered a VM still had vSphere Replication enabled.

system has paused replication disk added to vm

Manually remove vSphere replication from vCenter

1. In a webbrowser go to: http://YOUR-vCenter Server/mob
2. Remove this extensions: “com.vmware.vcHms”

More information about MOB, and removing plugins from vCenter, here: http://www.viktorious.nl/2012/05/06/vcenter-howto-remove-a-plugin-from-the-plugin-manager/

Remove vSphere replication from the affected VM
1. vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms |grep “NAME OF THE VM” <- You are merely looking for the VM’s ID # 2. vim-cmd hbrsvc/vmreplica.disable [VM #] More hbrsvc commands can be found here: http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2011/07/hbr-host-based-replication-cli-for-srm.html

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VMware Tools For FreeBSD

cd /usr/ports/emulators/open-vm-tools-nox11/

make all install

vi /etc/rc.conf
vmware_guest_vmblock_enable=”YES”
vmware_guest_vmhgfs_enable=”YES”
vmware_guest_vmmemctl_enable=”YES”
vmware_guest_vmxnet_enable=”YES”
vmware_guestd_enable=”YES”

vi /etc/ntp.conf
First line: tinker panic 0

vi /boot/loader.conf
kern.hz=100
vi /etc/sysctl.conf
kern.cam.da.retry_count=100

vmware-toolbox-cmd timesync disable