I won’t go into details about how to deploy the appliance inside VMware via the OVF file as most are familiar with the process on doing this. When we are talking about a security appliance that is what we want. One thing that I see right from the start that is really great is the OVF zip package you download upon signing up for the trial is only roughly 170MB or so – very small. When you sign up for the trial product you are taken to a download page to download the appliance file format that you need for your environment – VMware, HyperV, KVM, etc as well as full ISO for hardware Intel appliance. ![]() Sophos may have restricted access with XG to only pay customers and giving firewall only and various other features to home users. One thing to note is there is an XG Firewall and an XG UTM, which the free 9.x version for me is the UTM appliance. After you sign up on the mysophos portal you can download the product.Īlso, I am excited as well that Sophos announced also that there is still a Sophos XG Home Edition Firewall – which looks to provide most of the feature set as the 9.x version with the new technology and interface. ![]() Sophos offers a 30 day free trial which is what I am using to play around with the software and get a feel for the completely rewritten interface. Sophos did mention they are keeping both code branches however and development would continue on 9.x, however, the writing is on the wall that the XG product will be the software in times to come. So the other day I received the announcement from Sophos they had released their “next generation” firewall appliance that would be providing the way forward for current 9.x users.
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