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Hardware for Sophos Firewall Home Edition

Andy_CH

I’m looking for some advice for Hardware for the Sophos Firewall Home Edition.

I’m not sure if I should use a vm or bare-metal installation.

When I was looking for some hardware, I found HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus v2 with an Intel Pentium Gold G6405. Is this compatible with the Sophos Firewall Home Edition?

If yes would it be better to use the one with the Intel Xeon E-2314?

The Intel Pentium Gold G6405 hat 2 cores / 4 threads @ 4.1GHZ and the Intel Xeon E-2314 had 4 cores @ 2.8GHz base and 4.5GHz turbo.

The reason I’m looking at HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus v2 is that it is small and has a slot for a PCIe card. The slot for the PCIe card is important becaus I need to be able to add a fiber card so that if I get FTTH or move to a location that has FTTH, I can use the fiber connection.

On that note, what are some supported fiber PCIe cards?



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    Hi,

    does your hardware choice have legacy bios support? What are the NICs, XG does not support i219 or i225/6 series chips.

    The real quad core device is better especially if you look like using a fibre external connection.

    I have fibre cards installed, but they are in a VM so not sure about compatibility.

    The choice of vms is things like proxmox, VMware esxi.

    If you choose to use vm, make sure you lock the resources to the XG and disable speedstep. In VMware v8 you will need to choose v7 compatibility to get legacy bios when installing the xg firmware.

    Ian

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    Hyperthreading splits the lanes. So as i understand it the G6405 while doing work is a 2GHZ processor per thread if all threads are active.  

    www.cpubenchmark.net/.../Intel-Xeon-E-2314-vs-Intel-Pentium-Gold-G6405

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    ~~~ I miss Port 17. Remember using telnet to get the Quote of the Day? Maybe I'll set one up for all the port scanners.  ~~~ 

  • 0 in reply to rfcat_vk

    The Nic’s are an Embedded 1Gb 4-Port Intel i350-AM4 Controller.

  • 0 in reply to midnightSun

    No. SMT (HT etc.) reduces performance only in very rare circumstances and your concern of halving the performance/frequency fortunately is not real.

  • 0 in reply to MakaanPL

    On a firewall under heavy load, HT will reduce performance due to CPU shared resources.

    Ian

    XG115W - v20.0.3 MR-3 - Home

    XG on VM 8 - v21 GA

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