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Specs needed for a build for a google fiber WAN using HOME use version"?

chriswise
I am going to be getting Google fiber at my house soon and would like to put together a server build to run the home version of Sophos that will be able to handle the full gigabit of up and down speed I will have while still using the antivirus and intrusion prevention features. I currently have a 100 Mb connection and am using an older sonic wall but even this goes down to 70 MB whenever I turn on the gateway antivirus and intrusion prevention so there is no way it will handle my new connection.


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  • 0 in reply to Scott_Klassen
    I ended up getting system this off eBay for 250 bucks
    Hp pro desk
    Processor: Intel Core 4th Gen i3-4160 Dual Core Processor @ 3.6 GHz
    Memory: 8 GB DDR3
    Hard Drive: 1000 GB HD
    I'm gonna buy a dual Intel gigabit Nic and install Sophos and give it a try once I get Google fiber in a couple weeks
  • 0 in reply to chriswise

    Hi, Chris, and welcome to the UTM Community!

    Guys, I think the issue is comparing single-user tests to simulations of multiple users. An SG 310 might well pass up to 5GB through Snort in an office of 100 active users and nothing other than Network Protection active. If you're considering using software or hardware appliances in your business, be sure to work with a reliable reseller so that the reseller has some skin in the game.

    I had a phone conversation with William awhile back. He suggested that the only possible way to get the raw speed needed for low-user-count gigabit access would be to use ESXi installed on bare metal. He suggested a 16GB dual quad-Xeon with the GHz from all eight processors lumped into one or two very fast virtual CPUs. I don't know of anyone that's tried this.

    Cheers - Bob

     
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  • 0 in reply to BAlfson
    Hey Bob,
    please cut/copy this post out and make it a sticky in its own right. You might also suggest that it be added to the knowledge base system.

    Ian,

    home UTM 9.x running in ESXi 6 e3-1275v2

    AP55c and AP10 (courtesy Astaro)

    Three other UTMs, SUM and SFM in hibernation

    XG 15.x MR3 in hibernation

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    Not applicable for a sticky and Sophos wouldn't add it as a KB. Sorry.
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    So I need a couple of machines for various things at home and work so I ended up getting these 2 off ebay for pretty good prices.
    Dell PowerEdge R510 2x E5640 2.66ghz Quad Core/32G Ram/12 x 300GB 15K SAS Drives
    and
    Hp pro desk
    Processor: Intel Core 4th Gen i3-4160 Dual Core Processor @ 3.6 GHz
    Memory: 8 GB DDR3
    Hard Drive: 1000 GB HD
    and I bought this card to put in the above desktop
    Intel EXPI9402PT Pro/1000 PT Dual Port PCI-E x4 OEM Server Adapter

    My question is,which one is better suited to be used with the home version of sophos when I get Google Fiber here in a week or so?
    Based on the advice above I am leaning towards the HP pro desk b/c of the much higher CPU speed.
    Thoughts?
    If so I will probably put ESXi 6 on the dell r510 and put a couple of VM on it for other things.
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    I take it electricity is cheap around your area? That Dell unit will be a good room heater in winter.
    Use the HP for your UTM, the 1tb drive will increase your build time significantly so be prepared for an hour or so to do the install.
    An alternative would to put the 4 port NIC in the Dell and use it for the UTM as VM guest with many ghz assigned at least to see if it can handle the 1gb link. If that falls then you can go the HP.

    Ian,

    home UTM 9.x running in ESXi 6 e3-1275v2

    AP55c and AP10 (courtesy Astaro)

    Three other UTMs, SUM and SFM in hibernation

    XG 15.x MR3 in hibernation

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    Not so worried about electricity bill, just want what works well. I know it will be a bit more than if I tried to use something smaller but this is just one machine, not a room full of servers eating up electricity and making heat so for me the small cost increase is not worth worrying over. And hey, I just swapped all my lights to LED so maybe I'll come out ahead!
  • 0 in reply to BAlfson
    I'm curious about how to go about setting this up. I installed ESXi on an old core2quad machine as a test to see if I could combine the processing power into 2 larger CPUs and researched online but I'm not coming up with anything. I'm also new to VMware so I'm not a ninja with it.
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    So, playing with ESXi a little bit, the only thing that seems to be able to accomplish this would be creating a resource pool with all available processing power and 16GB+ of RAM assigned to it. Next, creating a single virtual machine under this resource pool with 2 vCPUs and 16GB of RAM. I'm curious if the hypervisor will provide the processing for the guest or, if the guest will only see the procesing power available to the CPU in use (i.e. a Quad Core 2.75GHz processor on the host shows as a 2.75GHz processor on the guest, not, say, a 2x 4.5GHz processors, depending on how the resource pool has been provisioned).
  • 0 in reply to Euphrates
    ESX doesn't work that way. It doesn't spread a vCPU (single thread) over multiple physical CPUs/cores. Resource Pools are only for dividing up and assigning/reserving resources for specific VMs.

    I don't know that any hypervisor will actually do that.
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