Maximum throughput of Virtual Sophos

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,

Is v18 available for free... and where can I download it?

Is v18 available for free... and where can I download it?

https://community.sophos.com/products/xg-firewall/sfos-eap/sfos-v18-early-access-program/b/blog/posts/sophos-xg-firewall-v18-eap-3-firmware-has-been-released

Be aware, there's performance issues right now on EAP 3, It's better for you to wait for EAP 3 Refresh.