I've been playing with Sophos UTM in an ESXi VM for a bit now and am currently using it for NAT and port forwarding to a couple lightweight DMZ guests. I am thinking I want to try it out as my primary firewall in place of my ASA 5505. I'd really like to build a new ESXi host for a new Sophos VM and also move my existing DNS/DHCP/RADIUS, etc guests to it as well. Kind of an infrastructure host that's not dependant on my home lab in any way.
I have a spare E5-2650 8c/16t @ 2.00Ghz and plenty of DDR3 ECC RDIMMs for such a machine. Intel ARK E5-2650
My internet is a 50Mb/5Mb cable modem connection right now but I may upgrade to the 100/10 service in the near future. There are 4 or 5 human users at any time and I have a pretty healthy complement of VMs and such going on as well. I plan to use the basic NAT firewall functionality as well as IPS and web filtering. I intend to demo the end-point protection and may use VPN as well.
I know that IPS in particular is single threaded and thus very Mhz dependant. Does the E5-2650 have enough single threaded performance for my use case? If that Xeon won't get it done I also have an earlier 1366 socket X5670 6c/12t @ 2.93 Ghz Intel ARK X5670 but I'd prefer to use the slightly newer E5.
TIA.
This thread was automatically locked due to age.
