Virtual firewall licences limited by CPU cores only
Catalog row in Vendor License Rules · Cited
- Kind
- Virtualization
- Statement
- Virtual firewall licences are restricted by the maximum CPU cores the instance may use (for example four cores for an SF SW/Virtual Xstream Protection licence). Since 2025-03-01 RAM is no longer restricted, although licence names such as SFV4C6 still show a RAM figure. Termed virtual licences cannot be resized unless they are MSP term licences.
- Applies when
- Sizing a virtual firewall.
- Applies to
- Sophos Firewall virtual, software and cloud (BYOL) instances.
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