Owner: Emmanuel Technology Consulting
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Wow, I learned something new today.
William is right, vmware can take a multicored system and essentially take the CPUs and virtually spread out the load, making a VM with less cores but more powerful vcpus. It's almost like reverse hyperthreading, with a small overhead on one of the CPUs, from having to run vmware itself.
Since the Sophos UTM runs snort for it's IPS engine and snort is a single threaded application, Williams solution virtualizes snort into a multicored application.
As someone who has used vmware workstation and vmware fusion on a regular basis with multiple VMs for the last 6 years, you literally just blew my mind William. Here I always assumed it was a direct one-to-one relationship to vcpus and actual. I even went out and verified what you said. VMWare CPU/Core allocation - Spiceworks
Seems that it would be the perfect solution to this particular situation.
Owner: Emmanuel Technology Consulting
Former Sophos SG(Astaro) advocate/researcher/Silver Partner
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In summary, William is sort of advising is to install VM, then install UTM on top at least for home users. That way even the cheaper low power cpus can be harnessed to improve thrI can see is vm is harder to upgrade than a straight utm.
I wonder if vm has the intel nic drivers that aren't in the utm yet?
Ian
Owner: Emmanuel Technology Consulting
Former Sophos SG(Astaro) advocate/researcher/Silver Partner
PfSense w/Suricata, ntopng,
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Owner: Emmanuel Technology Consulting
Former Sophos SG(Astaro) advocate/researcher/Silver Partner
PfSense w/Suricata, ntopng,
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Only in certain situations both for home use AND business use...but if you are running anything higher than dual core in your physical setup then virtualization will most assuredly allow you to harness the power of said machine much better.
Owner: Emmanuel Technology Consulting
Former Sophos SG(Astaro) advocate/researcher/Silver Partner
PfSense w/Suricata, ntopng,
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