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Maximum throughput of Virtual Sophos

I want to setup a virtual Sophos XG on VMware ESXi 6.7 which is running on a Cisco C220 M4 Rackserver (2x E5-4660 2.30Ghz | 128 GB RAM | OS is running an SSD) It has a 10Gb/s Connection for WAN and LAN.

The Sophos VM has 40 vCPUs and 100 GB RAM. What kind of throughput can I expect. Or differently... how much of my 10Gb/s speed am I going to loose.



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  • Hi,

     

    Jonas Keller said:
    The Sophos VM has 40 vCPUs and 100 GB RAM. What kind of throughput can I expect. Or differently... how much of my 10Gb/s speed am I going to loose.

    If you actually have a license that's capable of utilize 40 vCPUS and 100GB RAM, then you wouldn't even bee worrying about it not reaching 10Gbit/s.

    In a modern CPU, with IPS/WebProxy/ATP, on v17.5.x you can reach around  >820Mbit/s on a single core.

    The only problem you would face over a 10Gbit/s connection is: XG currently uses Snort, any application which uses a single connection for transferring anything, you will be forced to use only a single core of your VM.

    If you disable IPS on v17.5.x you will be getting line-rate throughput over it. Well, a 4vCore with 6GB RAM has capable of it*, then I don't see why 40vCore wouldn't be.

    *With VIrtiO Drivers, not vmxnet3.

     

    Ian said on the post above - your currently using the Home License, so your limited with 4Cores/6GB RAM, if that's true then you will only archive 10Gbit/s without IPS on v17.5.x.

    Currently on v18 EAP there's no Core/RAM limit on it*, you should try it out when EAP 3 Refresh comes out.

    *EAP 3 Refresh should have performance improvements, since it's currently.... "weird"...

     

    Thanks,


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