Hardware for Sophos xg home

Do you want to virtualize or run bare-metal? If you want to run without virtualization, the easiest method would be to buy a used Sophos appliance off eBay, like the XG 135 or SG 135, and completely erase the hard drive, or replace it with an SSD before installing Sophos.

The second easiest method would be to buy a Qotom fanless mini PC that uses the Intel i211 NIC.

The newer NICs (such as the 2.5G NICS or Intel i219+) are not supported by Sophos yet, but will work fine with virtualization such as Proxmox or VMware ESXi.

As i said in the post official hardware is very hard to get here. I want a box on which i can run sophos bare metal. Thanks for your reply!

Hi,

you will need to locate a minicomputer with a legacy bios and does not use intel i-219, 225 or 226 series and from Alan's post the 2.5gbe series.

Ian

Hi,

you will need to locate a minicomputer with a legacy bios and does not use intel i-219, 225 or 226 series and from Alan's post the 2.5gbe series.

Ian