The company that makes pfSense used to run its (pfSense) firewalls in ESXi, but then I got tired of having to wait for VMware to come up before the firewall(s)

The company that makes pfSense used to run its (pfSense) firewalls in ESXi, but then I got tired of having to wait for VMware to come up before the firewall(s) would come up. That, and CARP on VMware is ... tiresome.