Sophos Virtual Appliance

You can download through MySophos (Licensing Portal).

Thanks for the reply.

Any link or guide as to how to configure and use it as Virtual in Say for e.g. in VMWare. 

As per the documentation link provided by you, there is no mention for VMWare Workstation Template, can you guide me which template to use for VMWare Workstation. ?

I have unzipped and having following templates, kindly advise which best suites VMWare Workstation

sf_virtual.mf

sf_virtual.ovf

sf_virtual_virtualbox.ovf

sf_virtual_vm7.ovf

sf_virtual_vm8.ovf

sf_virtual_vm8_paravirtual.ovf

sf_virtual-disk1.vmdk

sf_virtual-disk2.vmdk

Do you have a trial licence or a home user licence?
ian

I have Licensed Hardware Appliance and not aware about licensing w.r.t Virtual Sophos. Can u guide me? 

you will need a software licence either trial or a business software licence. your hardware licence will not run on a vm.

ian

OK! Thanks

Hey Manish,

Just adding to rf_cat and prism, If you just want to test things on a test VM appliance, Just get the Sophos XG home edition. Download the ISO after signing up and deploy it as a normal VM (Just like you do with VMs in general). 

XG Home Edition is limited to 4 cores and 6 GB of RAM

OK! I will try the same. Can you guide me based on my attached Network diagram can I achieve whatever I have mentioned in the same and how ? Please advise. 

Hi,

What is the difference between Sophos XG home edition and the VM based Sophos Virtual Applaince ? Is the configuration same for both?

Hi,

providing the VM has the same number of ports as the XG135 then you can import your configuration into he XG135. The limitation is th amount of memory and ram that can be used by the home version.

How many ports does your PC have and that setup will be difficult to setup.

Ian

Hi,

providing the VM has the same number of ports as the XG135 then you can import your configuration into he XG135. The limitation is th amount of memory and ram that can be used by the home version.

How many ports does your PC have and that setup will be difficult to setup.

Ian

OK!

Please advise for my previous post w.r.t network diagram mentioned and seeking your advise as to how to go ahea.

Thank you for the drawing but you did not answer the question about how many ports your pc has and how ports have you configured in the vm?
ian

My PC has only 1 port. Since I am using VMWare Workstation I can add as many as virtual NICs required. There is only 1 physical NIC in my PC. I want to achieve as mentioned earlier the scenario with the said configuration. Is it possible and how ? Please advise

Any help ?

You will need to setup VLANs on the vm to enable your setup to work and you will not be able to import the configuration into your production XG. You will need to connect your pc to l3 switch with multiple VLANs to differentiate each network connection. Very messy.

ian

So in conclusion experimenting with Sophos Virtual Appliance on VMWare is not possible as far as my scenario is concerned. Hope this is what you want to conclude.?

No, it is possible, but for you as a beginner you are making the setup very difficult. In reality you really need at the very least two real nics and maybe a third one to provide management access to the vm device to allow for configuration failures.

ian