 Re: 4 cpus and 32 GB RAM
Was CPU and RAM maxed out on your old servers?
Given that there is a direct correlation between RAM and maximum concurrent connections you can support, you would have to have been doing a phenomenal amount of connections to use up 8GB. Off the top of my head Nokia does half a million with 1GB, or something along those lines.
Similarly with CPU - I've seen firewalls handling 25,000 connections, and still sitting below 10% CPU.
If neither RAM nor CPU was a bottleneck on your old system, then it's not going to make much difference having more hardware.
Is the firewall the bottleneck in your system?
As for whether it handles multiple CPUs well, I can't say. Usually I only have multiple CPUs in the management server. |