So Over the last months the ‘Router’ ESXi system was screaming its head off whenever it got close to 100% cpu usage, this would be generally when anything in the house would cause a spike in the Opnsense VM.
Along with this the drives in there were the last of the consumer drives from the V1 lab and it seems I was in prefailure of another drive, No data lost but ESXi wouldn’t allow me to update as the drive would disappear any time I tried.
I had a small 256GB Enterprise drive left over from the last set so I migrated all the VMs from the Router to the man system, So much for Disaster Mode, and set about ripping all the drives out of the Router systems chassis, I put in the single 256GB and install OPNSense on the baremetal, worries me come upgrades but for the moment the backup restored easily with only having to reassign the NICs to the physical interfaces rather then the virtuals and my 10G NIC came back after a config tweak so my ‘Servers’ branch (Most of my VMs run on this as its my DMZ) of my big server runs over a 10G link again.
It could be placebo but it feels alot faster, the system runs cool, I cleaned it at the same time so I bet that helped.