Building a Astaro FW using the software version of ASG, would I benefit best from one Quad-Core 2.4 GHz or two Quad-Core 2.0GHz? The price is almost the same, but the featues are somewhat different:
This is not for a home firewall. At home I'm about to build a dual-core Atom (330).
This is for the company where I work (500 IP license). 100Mbit fiber Internet connection. It will be a Dell rack-server since thats what we are using. 3-400 servers both physical and virtual. We have an aging ASG 6.3xx cluster that needs to be replaced, both hardware and update to asg 7.5xx.
As I said, a quad-core 2.4GHz is the same price as dual quad-core 2.0ghz. I might probably get by just fine with one quad-core 2.0GHz?
Does the IPS engine manage to use more than one core at a time?
The question is probably more like this: does ASG value speed over cores or cores over speed? Is it able to use all the cores?
This is not for a home firewall. At home I'm about to build a dual-core Atom (330).
This is for the company where I work (500 IP license). 100Mbit fiber Internet connection. It will be a Dell rack-server since thats what we are using. 3-400 servers both physical and virtual. We have an aging ASG 6.3xx cluster that needs to be replaced, both hardware and update to asg 7.5xx.
As I said, a quad-core 2.4GHz is the same price as dual quad-core 2.0ghz. I might probably get by just fine with one quad-core 2.0GHz?
Does the IPS engine manage to use more than one core at a time?
The question is probably more like this: does ASG value speed over cores or cores over speed? Is it able to use all the cores?