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most powerful hardware for Sophos XG home

Peter Mueller

Hi,

 

I know there are heaps of thread asking what hardware suits best for the home edition of Sophos XG. However I think my requirements are a little different. Most threads ask for the cheapest, least power consuming units. I rather go for the most powerful one to max out the limitations of 4 cpus and 6gb of RAM.

Currently I am running Sophos XG on an ESXI Server with E3-1265L V2. The Appliance got 4 vCPUs and 5GB of RAM.

I have about 40 live users (serveral servers, pc's and IOT devices) in average, Mainly clientless users. I run 5 Vlans and about 15 Firewall Rules. I already deactivated some Firewall feature in order to push the CPU load average below 4. Currently the average is around 3.5 with regular peaks over 4 which apparently leads to CPU Queuing. 

Since used RAM is around 50%, I believe the virtual CPU Power is just not sufficient for my purposes. Of course I know that vCPUs perform worse than bare metal.

 

Therefore, I am looking for a fanless/silent barebone/mini pc with 4 NIC and a 4 Core CPU with enough power. Furthermore it should be possible to have 6GB of RAM (probably 8GB with 2 GB unused).

I read a lot about the Celerons J1900 as recommodations but I assume that couldn't be enough for my setup.

What CPU do you recommend and is there a nice ready to use barebone suiting these needs? I saw some Jetway units which could be a good option. e.g. https://www.minipc.de/catalog/il/2289

 

thx and Best 

Pete



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  • 0 in reply to alan weir

    Hi Alan,

    I would be wary of there Asrock MBs, they seem to use some strange chipset arrangements. I don't buy them anymore because I could not get it to work with UTM or XG.

    Also from memory you cannot change the power settings eg auto restart after power failure.

    Your choice of SSD is consumer grade low read/write requirement, not industrial 24 hr day every day grade.

    Ian

  • 0 in reply to rfcat_vk

    The only industrial drives I see are by KingDian which look like they would've been sold out the back of a white van. The only industrial PCIe based SSDs I see are prohibitively expensive. An SSD that takes advantage of wear-leveling should not have any issues for years especially if it is SLC type.

    Also, power failure shouldn't be an issue if you use a UPS. I have an APC UPS connected and it can actually communicate with the UTM and show the battery charge level.