You can run Sophos SG UTM and XG Firewall virtualized, but in your situation. :Pįor your information: I have a 250/100Mbps fiber connection to my house. I may run it virtualized if you say that it is safe. This is for personal use in a home environment, but I still want secure networks. I don't think it is an uncommon approach on companies to run it virtualized, but maybe I'm wrong.

My biggest concern are the security, how secure is it to run the firewall virtualized? For some reason my heart screams a little when I'm thinking to run it virtualized, becauseĪ dedicated approach should be more secure, because you don't expose a virtualization platform to the net as you do with a virtualized approach.īut is it common that hackers find holes on the virtualization platform and can gain access to the internal lans? How safe are virtualization platforms nowadays? I think the hardware can handle a one or two vm:s alongside a Sophos install.?

I have a little thought to run ESXI on the machine to have some more vm:s running on it in parallell with Sophos UTM. I think it is quite a waste to use the hardware as a firewall only, I don't think Sophos need an I7 with 32GB ram, or am I wrong? I have a computer with a Core I7 2600K, 32GB ram, 4 Intel nics, and I'm planning to run Sophos UTM on this as my primary firewall (home use with some internal and some public servers behind).

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