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Home license on XGS hardware - did anyone get this running?

Oliver Schnürer

Dear community,

I recently purchased a pre-owned XGS116w appliance and would like to run the home license on it. There are several forum posts how to start to get a home license onto a XGS hardware, but I could not find any which actually stated "I've succeeded in running a home license on a XGS appliance!".

Maybe my search was not thorough enough, but does anybody successfully run the home license on XGS hardware? 

Thanks,

Oliver



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[edited by: Erick Jan at 11:33 AM (GMT -7) on 5 Aug 2024]
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    Hi Oliver,

    Thank you for reaching out to Sophos Community.

    For XGS, this would not be possible even if you replaced the SSD.

    • "Note: For XGS hardware, this won’t install/run/work, even with replacing the SSD"

    You may refer to the following KB:  Sophos Firewall Home 

    I've also verified this with our Internal team.

    "It's possible to use a home license for SW ISO – the customer could install SW ISO on any hardware (including SG and XG – but not on XGS)."

    Erick Jan
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  • 0 in reply to Erick Jan

    May you ask them about an upcoming available XGS home license ? Which would be great in order to reduce the recycling footprint and allows students to practice on your hardwares ?

    The idea of getting a license available for home usage is still valid and useful.

  • 0 in reply to Fabien Francois

    SFOS Home is meant to be used for in Home Networks and for people who want to do it for there own networks on their own hardware. 
    As you could buy hardware like SG/XG Hardware, which are technically server hardware, you could use them to install a bare metal installation. 
    XGS Hardware is more specialized hardware and was never be designed to use in home networks or to reinstall SFOS home on it. 

    In times of virtualization, most IT professionals have something to virtualize hardware on there devices. Proxmox, Hyper-V and other platforms are on there rise to get more performance out of one appliance. 

    For example, there are great guides, how to virtualize the network protection for the home network: https://youtu.be/7pvgKc3WdEg 

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  • 0 in reply to LuCar Toni

    I can only hope for a release supporting XGS hardware. But only Sophos knows if and when this will be available in the future. 

    Until then I still have a lightning fast hardware firewall with base functionality and a proper VPN. 
    The more sophisticated features like SD-WAN, traffic shaping etc. are not really in my focus yet, although I hoped for offloading client malware detection. That would have been nice, as AV-scan always consumes lots of CPU on my clients. 

    Cheers,

    Oliver

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  • 0 in reply to LuCar Toni

    I can only hope for a release supporting XGS hardware. But only Sophos knows if and when this will be available in the future. 

    Until then I still have a lightning fast hardware firewall with base functionality and a proper VPN. 
    The more sophisticated features like SD-WAN, traffic shaping etc. are not really in my focus yet, although I hoped for offloading client malware detection. That would have been nice, as AV-scan always consumes lots of CPU on my clients. 

    Cheers,

    Oliver

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  • 0 in reply to Oliver Schnürer

    Yes I am hoping as well,

    Actually the only thing that I wish to have access to, is the IPS function that I wish to manage with my current SIEM. And as well setting some external lists of threat intelligence, and automating it to a certain extent.

    As personal use cases and experiments, I find it useful, so if anyone in Sophos can get it up on higher instances, would be great for all of the home users, and for the environment as well.

    Cheers !

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