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Looking to upgrade UTM to XG and how it relates to EOL

We have a SG105 with support license, renewed every year. I read elsewhere on the forum that Sophos is promoting XG over UTM with development. I figured, maybe with the Shelter in Place order, we could look in to fixing something that is not broken. ;) Plus, it would be nice to upgrade to firewall manage the ap and have new features.

Article https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/122869 shows the SG105 is eligible for upgrade and migration of license to XG software. According to https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/121502#SG%20Series%20Appliances, the SG105 doesn't have a EOL declared and the XG105 has a declared EOL date of August of 2022.

if I were to upgrade the SG105 software to XG, will it accelerate the EOL to August of 2022? Or does the unit remain designated as an SG firewall with XG software and the EOL remains "undeclared"? Are the any disadvantages to upgrading? I would like to continue the support licensing with the new platform.

Thanks in advance.

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0 Holger Gran over 4 years ago
Hello Richard,

I would not recommend to migrate a SG105 to the XG firmware, as the hardware is not very powerful and you will get stuck with version 17.x of the XG firmware.

Version 18.0 requires a minimum of 4 GB RAM. So, you can't upgrade the following models to 18.0:

XG 85, XG 85w, XG 105, and XG 105w

SG 105, SG 105w

These models must remain on a 17.x version. See XG Firewall Lifecycle Policy and XG Firewall retirement calendar.

The EOL of the XG105 is surly linked to the hardware limitations of the smaller SG and XG devices when using the XG firmware.
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0 Richard P over 4 years ago in reply to Holger Gran

Hello Holger,

This is very helpful. As suggested, I probably will stay put with UTM software until something breaks.

I could upgrade the RAM but opens a whole can of worms with change in licensing and the loss of warranty (if I didn't lose already) when referring to Scott Klassen's post on community.sophos.com/.../can-i-upgrade-sg-105-disk-and-ram

Better to buy a new appliance.

Thanks,

Richard
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0 Richard P over 4 years ago in reply to Holger Gran

Hello Holger,

This is very helpful. As suggested, I probably will stay put with UTM software until something breaks.

I could upgrade the RAM but opens a whole can of worms with change in licensing and the loss of warranty (if I didn't lose already) when referring to Scott Klassen's post on community.sophos.com/.../can-i-upgrade-sg-105-disk-and-ram

Better to buy a new appliance.

Thanks,

Richard
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