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Installation on Hyper-V

SM-ITM

Hello Everyone,

I recently started looking at Sophos Firewalls. For this I would like to install the SFOS (V19 EAP) on a Hyper-V in our laboratory. The basic procedure is known to me and is not a problem. I am only unsure about the following aspects:

Hyper-V Generation
Is VM-Generation 2 now also supported in Version 19 of SFOS?

Installation-Media
I don't understand the point of the Installation-Media for Hypervisors (Hyper-V/VMware/KVM). Why are there these next to the ISO for Software-Installation? What is the specific benefit of Hypervisor-Media?

Disk-Management
If I use the Hypervisor-Media then two Disks (Primary/Aux) are used. However, only one Disk is used when using the Software-Installer. What's the background here?

Ressources
The documentation warns against assigning more CPU-Cores than are covered by the license. In the case of RAM, however, it is not described that the system goes into Fail-Safe in the event of overbooking. I have an license (NFR) for 4 Cores and 6GB of RAM. Could I allocate 8GB of RAM too?


I hope you can help me, as I haven't found anything specific about this in the documentation.


Greetings from Germany



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  • +1

    Basically you can use both, ISO or the hyper-V. The Hyper-V version will come with a preinstalled Disks and all the drivers to run in hyper-V, so i would recommend to use the hyper-V version. 

    It will not support Generation 2. 

    You can assign more, but it should not matter. But Home can only use 4 cores and 6 GB ram. 

  • 0 in reply to LuCar Toni

    Thank you for your prompt reply!

    Are the drivers not even included in the ISO? Why aren't two disks created during the software installation (ISO)? I have an NFR-License (4C/6G). Can I use more than 6GB of RAM with this license?

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