Thinking of coming back to Sophos from pfSense

Question

Some history. I used the Sophos UTM9 product for a few years but outgrew the 50 IP address limitation so moved to pfSense. I really liked UTM and was never really happy with pfSense as I always felt UTM had a much better interface and the FW rules were more logically configured. I am not a network engineer, just a tech savvy person who can figure things out pretty easliy. As I am tired of trying to find a good solution to log monitoring and reporting with pfSense I am thinking of coming back to Sophos and using the XG product. The hardware I will be using is: 
 Jetway Intel N2930 Intel Celeron N2930 2.16 GHz Quad Core Processor 5x Intel Gigabit LAN; 1 Intel i211AT LAN + 4 Intel 82574L LAN (Daughterboard) 8GB RAM 120GB SSD 
 
 Some questions I have are: 
 
 Will this hardware be enough for a FIOS 750/750 connection? 
 What are the limitations on the XG home license vs. paid? 
 Does XG have the ability to email reports as UTM did? 
 Can I run multiple OpenVPN servers on different ports? 
 Does XG block all outgoing connections by default like UTM did? 
 
 I would appreciate anyone's feedback on this. 
 
 Thanks, 
 Andy

tom greene · Accepted Answer

Hey Andy, 
 
 I can answer question number 2. 
 There are only hardware limitations between the paid and the home version. The home version can only use 4 cores and 6gb RAM. 
 There are no ip address limitations like in the UTM version. 
 Also you dont get the sandstorm feature on the home version. 
 So other than those differences above its the same as the Paid Version. 
 I am using it, there a few bugs and some weird things going on but its ok once you get used to it. 
 Way better than PFsense in my opinion.

lferrara · Answer

Andy, 
 it always depends of what features you will enable on XG. However: 
 
 if you use all the features, the answer is no. Refer to the real world datasheet: https://www.google.it/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwif-o7cxefTAhUQIlAKHcfKCt8QFggpMAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcommunity.sophos.com%2Fcfs-file%2F__key%2Fcommunityserver-discussions-components-files%2F135%2Fsophos_5F00_xg_5F00_series_5F00_sizing_5F00_guide_5F00_sgna.pdf&usg=AFQjCNEdOtCrjHCrvBn5I1Zj6WdqELQnnA&sig2=9rWQXceB4ZMcEQJ1ZhdyUQ 
 4 core and 6 GB of RAM 
 Reports can be emailed. A report scheduling TAB exists under Reports > Show Report settings 
 VPN can run only one port and cannot be even customized at the moment 
 You need to create a default deny any any at the end of Firewall Rules 
 
 Regards