Deployment options

Hardware

Sophos Firewall is available in a range of physical hardware devices to cater to the needs of all size of businesses including home users, small businesses, and enterprises.

To find out which device suits your needs, contact our sales team or your preferred partner.

Virtual

You can deploy the virtual appliances as next-generation firewalls. They offer industry-leading network security to virtual data centers, “security-in-a-box” setup for MSSPs and organizations, and “office-in-a-box” setup. By offering comprehensive security features available in its hardware security devices, in virtualized form, these virtual devices offer layer-8 identity-based security on a single virtual device.

Sophos offers a complete virtual security solution to organizations with its virtual network security devices, next-generation firewalls, virtual Sophos Firewall Manager (SFM) for centralized management, and Sophos iView software for centralized logging and reporting.

You can install virtual appliances within environments hosted on VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, and XenApp. Find the full list of supported versions in the Sophos Firewall OS virtual and software appliances help Virtual and software appliance guide.

To install Sophos Firewall within a virtual environment, the following minimum requirements must be met:

If you don't meet the minimum requirements for new installations of SFOS 18.0, or if you're migrating from an earlier version, Sophos Firewall goes into fail-safe mode.

Software

You can deploy the Sophos Firewall software appliance on custom hardware over Windows and macOS systems.

To install Sophos Firewall on your own hardware the following minimum requirements must be met:

If you don't meet the minimum requirements for new installations of SFOS 18.0, or if you're migrating from an earlier version, Sophos Firewall goes into fail-safe mode.