Deployment options

This section provides information about the different deployment options available for Sophos Firewall.

Sophos Firewall is available in the following formats:

• Hardware
• Virtual
• Software

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, a “security-in-a-box” setup for MSSPs and organizations, and an “office-in-a-box” setup. By providing 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, and Sophos Central to centrally manage your Sophos Firewall devices.

You can install virtual appliances within environments hosted on VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, and Citrix Hypervisor. For the complete list of supported versions, see the Virtual and software appliance guide.

You must fulfill the following minimum requirements to install Sophos Firewall within a virtual environment:

If you don't meet the minimum requirements, Sophos Firewall goes into fail-safe mode.

Software

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

You must fulfill the following minimum requirements to install Sophos Firewall on your own hardware:

If you don't meet the minimum requirements, Sophos Firewall goes into fail-safe mode.