WatchGuard FireboxV Micro review
WatchGuard’s FireboxV is one of the best firewall software options and will appeal to businesses that want to virtualize their security services and avoid the extra cost of an on-premises hardware appliance. It’s now available in five versions, after WatchGuard responded to customer requests and added a budget-priced Micro model. Targeting smaller sites with up to five users, FireboxV Micro is restricted to two virtual CPUs (vCPUs), a maximum firewall throughput of 1Gbit/sec and five branch office VPNs . If your needs change in the future you can upgrade to a Small, Medium, Large or XLarge model by applying a new license key, and there are no compromises on features: all versions offer precisely the same security measures as WatchGuard’s hardware appliances. FireboxV supports Hyper-V, VMware plus KVM on CentOS. For testing, we installed it on a Dell PowerEdge R650xs rack server running Windows Server 2022 and the Hyper-V role. It’s a simple process: we downloaded the virtual disk...