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My bandwidth decreases significantly when I try to use Sophos XG versus Sophos UTM.

JohnDoe2

I have both my sophos UTM and Sophos XG setup as virtual machines on the same host with identical resource allotments (8vCPUs/8GB of ram). When I'm using the Sophos 9.X UTM everything is fine I am able to achieve my ISP speeds (50/10) without any trouble. If I cut over to the XG and use that I see below 10 on both down/up speeds. There doesn't appear to be a difference if I have IPS on or off, web filter on or off.

This is being used on the home license so I know that there is a limitation on the XG of 4 vCPUs/6GB but I gave it more just to see what happens and while I can see the counts within XG i'm guessing it isn't actually using all of that.

Is there something else I am missing?



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    JohnDoe2, what are the hardware specs of the host running your UTMv9 and XG VMs? Specifically the mainboard and NICs?
    I believe this is simply a hardware compatibility issue with the Sophos XG, similar to my experience.
    I do not have the option of running VMs on top the HP DC7900 as the chipset does not support virtualization. Sophos XG needs to run on bare metal. I could easily spin up the XG in a VM on another workstation, but that is not my intended solution architecture.

    Is there a published hardware (mainboard/chipset/NIC) list for Sophos XG compatibility?
    I honestly thought that installing the Intel 82574L NICs would solve the issue, as they are one of the most prolific in the industry...
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    JohnDoe2, what are the hardware specs of the host running your UTMv9 and XG VMs? Specifically the mainboard and NICs?
    I believe this is simply a hardware compatibility issue with the Sophos XG, similar to my experience.
    I do not have the option of running VMs on top the HP DC7900 as the chipset does not support virtualization. Sophos XG needs to run on bare metal. I could easily spin up the XG in a VM on another workstation, but that is not my intended solution architecture.

    Is there a published hardware (mainboard/chipset/NIC) list for Sophos XG compatibility?
    I honestly thought that installing the Intel 82574L NICs would solve the issue, as they are one of the most prolific in the industry...
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