Hi all
I know there is a lot of these threads, however i hope some of you guys will have the time to answer me anyway :-)
So, the problem is as follows, for the past 5 years i worked in a company where we used a couple of Sophos (or astaro if you will) UTM 320's, and to be honest, i really liked the interface of this particular firewall..
Now this November i left my job to start in another company as a network administrator, i won't be able to use Sophos at my new job since they just recently changed firewall to checkpoint.
Since i'm now going to work as a network administrator only (before i had both the servers and network responsibility) i talked to an old colleague and we agreed that we should build our own "play" server farm..
So far we talked about creating the following:
2+ computers with Windows Server 2012 Datacenter installed
create 2 sites (one in my place and one in his)
create complete Domain with 2 sites, exchange servers, SCCM etc. as virtual servers on the 2 datacenter servers.
Between the 2 "server farms" the plan was to create a S2S VPN tunnel.
Since this is only a test environment running on my own private internet line, there will not run that much data over the firewall, but still, it should be able to handle both the test servers and the computers of the house (13 devices atm).
So.. what kind of hardware would you guys think i should use for it to ensure that the firewall won't become a problem
i was thinking something like this:
Gigabyte GA-B75N
Intel Core i3-3220T
Kingston HyperX Lovo 2x4 GB
and then an old 80 GB Intel SSD.
I'm most worried about the compatibility with the Sophos UTM 9 OS, towards the 2 netcards on the motherboard.
Any comments would be greatly appreciated.
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