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Dell PowerEdge R220 - Sophos XG Home v18

Mike Scott

Good morning,

 

Just looking at spec up a Dell PowerEdge R220 server with additional 4 Port Intel VT 1000 NIC. Has anyway installed / or is running such hardware?

Processor I'm selecting at this time is the low powered Intel Xeon E3-1240L V3 - 4-Core 2.00Ghz (8MB Cache, 5.00GTs, 25W.

 

The alternative configuration is to run ESXi 6.7 and run the XG firewall as a virtual appliance.

 

Currently running Untangle on an Atom E3845 based device, found Sophos XG too slow on the UI, but I prefer Sophos XG.  I'd hope to sell off the Pondesk PC if I order the Dell unit.  I've got a i3-6100T SFF PC too, but I'm still going to keep that to running ESXi.  Part of me prefers to keep the firewall element physical still, otherwise I'm all for virtualisation.

Internet connection is an ADSL connection from Vodafone UK 70/20.

Best regards,

 

Mike



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    Hi Mike,

    that will run okay, putting a VM on it will slow it down too much. If you had normal CPU then that would be okay.

    Just remember to plug two live connections into the ports so you can assign WAN and LAN during installation.

    Ian

  • 0 in reply to rfcat_vk

    Many thanks Ian

     

    I agree re the virtual aspect, unless you're running better tin and decent datastores.  

     

    These are the CPU options, but I'm not keen on ramping up the W usage.

    • Intel Xeon E3-1220 V3 - 4-Core 3.10Ghz (8MB Cache, 5.00GTs, 80W)   +£42.00 [31]
    • Intel Xeon E3-1226 V3 - 4-Core 3.30Ghz (8MB Cache, 5.00GTs, 84W)   +£93.60 [1]
    • Intel Xeon E3-1230 V3 - 4-Core 3.30Ghz (8MB Cache, 5.00GTs, 80W)   +£90.00 [2]
    • Intel Xeon E3-1240L V3 - 4-Core 2.00Ghz (8MB Cache, 5.00GTs, 25W)   +£90.00 [7]
    • Intel Xeon E3-1246 V3 - 4-Core 3.50Ghz (8MB Cache, 5.00GTs, 84W)   +£150.00 [3]
    • Intel Xeon E3-1270 V3 - 4-Core 3.50Ghz (8MB Cache, 5.00GTs, 80W)   +£114.00 [20]
    • Intel Xeon E3-1271 V3 - 4-Core 3.60Ghz (8MB Cache, 5.00GTs, 80W)   +£132.00 [1]
    • Intel Xeon E3-1275 V3 - 4-Core 3.50Ghz (8MB Cache, 5.00GTs, 84W)   +£180.00 [1]

     

    Previously had a working V18 install, so would look to do a restore potentially, but not sure how the restore process likes different hardware etc.  I've done the restore process with the same hardware with zero issues.  I was flipping between pfsense, Untangle and Sophos.

     

    I have ports on my switch VLAN'd for build purposes, so I can do as much of the install as possible.  

    The setup is Draytek ADSL modem in bridge mode connected up to firewall.

  • 0 in reply to Mike Scott

    To be honest, for the performance you need to run the home version, you would be better off with a desktop style PC and additional network card.  An R220 is rather overkill.

  • 0 in reply to BLS

    Hi Tim,

    Already got additional 2 and 4 port PCI-E network cards.

    I was interested as the R220 seem to be an ok price circa £250 etc.  Some of the Dell PCs I was looking at are more £500, but going to look at the outlet store later re the Optiplex 3070.

     

    I am hoping for a small wall rack, funds permitting later in year to go in the loft.  Funds permitting re cabling the house, which will involve chasing walls out downstairs. 

     

    Cheers,

    Mike

  • 0 in reply to Mike Scott

    Hi Mike,

    my unit is a e3-1225v5 on a ASUS server motherboard with an additional Intel dual NIC. It idles about 20w and get very excited at reboot time. I haven't seen it increase in power under heavy load because basically my unit runs about 10% or less CPU most of the time.

    The unit only has the CPU power supply fans. The hardest part was and is trying to locate a powersupply small enough, under 300w.

    My current internet is 50/20 mb/s and we do audio and video streaming (4k) with a number of other devices that are online all the time.

    Now the recommendation for home users is get the fastest CPU, not the most  powerful one.

    I hope that helps.

    Ian

    I hate spellchecker. My unit is about 2 years old.

  • 0 in reply to rfcat_vk

    Although there will be a point where no matter how powerful your CPU is, current (and networking speeds for the next 3 years) won't ever be able to get close to the maximum performance.

     

    I would be helpful to collate a list of CPUs that work well with the XG.

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  • 0 in reply to rfcat_vk

    Although there will be a point where no matter how powerful your CPU is, current (and networking speeds for the next 3 years) won't ever be able to get close to the maximum performance.

     

    I would be helpful to collate a list of CPUs that work well with the XG.

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