Thursday, December 17, 2020

Goodbye, Sonicwall

Well, I am throwing in the towel. With pandemic remote work up, we've had several capacity issues with VPN/bandwidth/random disconnects and given that our Sonicwall NSA 2600 was slow with regards to the management interface and often had CPU >50% use, we thought upgrading it to 3650 would help some of these problems. Well it didn't, many of the issues persist, particularly the management interface becoming terribly slow & unresponsive, and working with SW tech support gave us conflicting configuration settings nearly every call as they attempted to throw things and hope they stuck. Well we are done. I'm looking at getting a couple test units from Palo Alto and Fortinet and changing vendors.

Edit: apparently not as easy as I thought to revert our licenses back to our old 2600. No options for reverting an upgrade, let that be a warning to anyone else, once you push an upgrade you are hosed.



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