# Rancher on VMware & Pfsense

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-on-vmware-pfsense/11781>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [September 17, 2018, 1:29am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-on-vmware-pfsense/11781 "2018-09-17T01:29:15Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 17, 2018, 1:29am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/rancher-on-vmware-pfsense/11781/1 "2018-09-17T01:29:16Z")

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Hello

Trying Rancher to see what all the fuss is about and so far very impressed.

I am setting up Racher on ESXi and have 4 virtual machines. 1 x Rancher 2 x Hosts.

All are behind pfsense on LAN.

I have tried to setup all on private IPs and adding hosts is successful . The issue is when a load balancer is added…

Can a public IP be assigned manually to the load balancer so that any container added to the LB can be accessed ?

I guess 3 questions need to be asked:-

1. Knowing the above what would be the best setup ?
2. Currently I have selected the custom driver however would it be benefical to use the vSphere driver ? The only reason I did not is my vCenter is on a different subnet to the VMs so setting that up would fail.

Any help & advice would be appreciated.