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Sophos XG vCPU or physical CPU limitation

l0rdraiden

Hello,

Does anyone know if the limit of the home edition is based on VCPU's or physical?

I have a CPU with 4 cores 8 threads, if I run XG on a virtual machine can I assign 8 vCPUs since these are based on a 4 core processor? Or I can only assign 4 vCPUs?

 

How long it will take to have the new version released, 17.5 as a KVM or ESXI image? right now only 17.1.4 MR 4 is available

 

Thanks in advance



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  • 0 in reply to HuberChristian

    Clear?

    So if I have a cpu with 4 cores 8 threads

    • If I install Sophos XG in the physical machine I can use the 4 cores with its 8 threads (8 "v"cores)
    • but If I install SophosXG in the same processor as a virtual machine I can only use 4 vcores.

    Right?

  • 0 in reply to l0rdraiden

    Hi l0rdraiden ,

    We support Hyper Threading so the 4 cores will be as 8 threads and as the VM we cannot comment on that as it would depend on the Virtual Machine if hyper threading is supported or not if so it may convey as 8 logical cores and SFOS will only able to use 4.

    Regards,

    Aditya Patel
    Global Escalation Support Engineer | Sophos Technical Support
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  • 0 in reply to Aditya Patel

    Thats my point, any hypervisor will show to the guest OS a number of cores (vcores), and from a VM perspective all those cores are equal, so it's unfair compared with a physical setup.

    Any modern processor has 1 core 2 threads ratio so it would be fair in a virtualize environment to allow 8 cores.

     

    RAM is usually not and issue becasue in a home environment you deal with low users high speed connections, so if we want to play the the security features cores are more important than RAM.

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