Upgrade old company SG appliance to XG home licence

Question

The company I work for has recently replaced its UTM9 SG 135w appliance with a new XG 135w appliance. The old SG 135w appliance has been given to me. 
 I would like to use the appliance at home but my question is; can I upgrade the SG appliance that was originally registered/licenced to a business to become an XG appliance with a home licence? 
 I currently have no licences of any kind at all. Would I first need to obtain an SG home use licence and apply this to the appliance before upgrading it to become an XG?

Argo · Answer

Hi Nico, 
 yes it can be done I did it a few years ago, 
 1. register for a home user account and a Free XG License - i'm sure you have done this bit already. 
 2. download the Software ISO - this too 
 3. burn to USB using Rufus (DD Mode, it should prompt you) 
 4. boot the SG135 using the keyboard and connected screen. 
 the one thing I did note was that the ports all got reversed (i was doing this with v17, so may not happen now), this behaviour is noted on the forum somewhere, not sure where though. 
 You may have to plugin to a few of the ports after it has been installed on the SG135 - standard address is 172.16.16.16:4444&#160;- i am sure you know this too.. 
 
 I would also build it on the standard config, initially to see if it what you want, the one I used was incredibly slow, but my unit was much older than yours and a different version, I run XG on a 60Gb SSD. 
 
 have fun this is a good learning experience.

Upgrade old company SG appliance to XG home licence

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