SonicWall TZ Scalability
The multi-core architecture allows the running of multiple instances for checking files, even handling more than 2 GB of data. It has inbuilt reporting features, reducing the cost of external monitoring software. It's well-suited for organizations that need to transfer and scan large files. The scalability is good for small and medium-sized enterprises, but for organizations with more than 200 users, the cost can become a limiting factor. It is more suitable for large enterprises, especially for organizations with over 4,000 users.
However, there could be flexibility in licensing, allowing organizations to cater to their specific needs and pay for the features and licenses they require. It can help reduce costs. I rate its scalability a seven out of ten.
View full review »I have not handled any scaling tasks. We don't have scalability requirements. We have around 150 users on the solution right now.
View full review »I have around five to seven customers for SonicWall TZ.
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SonicWall TZ
March 2024
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Benjamin Nierman
President at BSD Consulting
SonicWall TZ allows you to scale up by upgrading to a higher level.
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Harry Srolovitz
Manager, Customer Security & Guidance at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Scalability is good but once you buy the product itself, you're limited to what that particular device can deliver in terms of throughput and add-on features. You can easily add on additional functionality through various software/licensing, but it can't scale up more than the product's physical limitations. To address this, Sonicwall does have an upgrade program to enable organizations to capitalize on any investments made in training and management tools.
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Chetan Arvind Shah
Technical Support at Hind Industrial & Mercantile Corp Pvt Ltd
SonicWall TZ has good scalability. Around eight users are using the solution in our organization.
I rate the solution a nine out of ten for scalability.
Approximately 250 to 300 users are using SonicWall TZ in our organization.
View full review »It is scalable. If the operation is less, it is scalable. But if the operation increases and the bandwidth consumption increases, it does not perform as per the expectations.
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Puneet Dobhal
Director at VULPINE SOFTWARE PVT LTD
We consider growing the solution based on the company's needs. We work with different sizes of organizations. We try to project out what a company will need, not tomorrow, but three years down the line, and build for that on day one.
We do this due to the fact that it's not exactly scalable. We build it bigger so organizations can grow into the solution quite a bit. Users are restricted by the model of the firewall, so if you choose something that's too small, it won't be able to meet your needs and you'll have to start over and trade up to a bigger model.
If a TZ series can handle 500 users, and a company currently has 200 users, they'll be able to scale up, technically speaking, to about 300 more users before they hit their threshold.
Basically, the scalability is not infinite. It's quite limited to the capacity of the model itself.
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reviewer2031264
IT at a healthcare company with 201-500 employees
I would rate it a six out of ten for scalability but for medium to small enterprises. All are remote users. I would rate the solution a six out of ten because there is still room for improvement, and it's not advisable even if the organization has grown.
A lot of users use it. All our email sheets are using it, and users connect via VPN.
View full review »The only issue I have with scalability is the price.
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Eric Barba
Senior Systems Analyst at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The scalability is very good because if you know how to work the base model, the old solution or the TZ 105, all the way up to the NSAs, they just scale up in terms of features and functionality and you don't change a whole lot. They have good terminology that sticks throughout, so if you work with one, you can work with them all. It means upgrading and scaling is very easy. We manage about 1300 users or so across about 100 different clients. For the most part, maybe 80% of them are on SonicWall, and we try to push that just because it makes our lives a lot easier.
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Mayur_Patel
Chief Commercial Officer at Mp Online
I rate the tool’s scalability a ten out of ten. We have around 100 users. We use the tool daily.
View full review »Its scalability is not bad. It could be more scalable with releases and subscriptions.
We have about 200 users.
View full review »We have about 1,200 users on the solution. It's deployed to different departments and branches.
It's not really scalable. Not like FortiGate.
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reviewer1506144
IT Infra Head at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is not very scalable, which is something that could be better.
We have multiple locations and have implemented it in several.
At this time, we have 1,000 users on the firewall.
View full review »I rate SonicWall six out of 10 for scalability. I'd like to have cloud management at no additional cost. Unfortunately, leveraging SonicWall's cloud management capabilities is cost-prohibitive, so we don't use it. They should have a reasonable subscription or offer it to us at no cost as an MSP. The size of our client companies varies quite a bit, but they have devices to scale for various sizes, so it's a non-issue. You buy the appropriate device.
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Darryll Bates
Senior Network Engineer at Matrix Solutions
I cannot comment on the scalability of this solution as we work with mostly small to medium businesses and do not worry about scaling.
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Juan Larragueta
General Manager at Antea Consulting
The scalability of the product is quite good. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so easily.
We have about 200 customers using this solution right now.
We do have plans to increase usage. We're moving more and more towards managing it.
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VINEETHBABU P
Senior Network Engineer at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees
We size our appliance based on the number of users, in this solution the TZ appliance was suitable for 30-40 users.
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Svein Jensen
Senior Engineer at KDsystems
I have no negative impression of the scalability.
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Enrique PerezAfonso
Business cybersecurity Specialist at Forlopd
Their scalability is wonderful. SonicWall has a migration table and it's easy to migrate the configuration of a small model to medium or all types. It's really easy. No problem. I have done this a few times and each time was perfect.
We have almost 100 users.
One person is enough for doing maintenance on SonicWall.
We do have plans to increase usage to more or less 10 or 20% more users next year.
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Tharuka Fernando
Information Technology Executive at Pelemix Lanka
Currently, we have 17 users in our country with access to the firewall. We have given them a VPN connection to the firewall to access some of their data.
It is more suitable for small businesses. It would be useful if they can improve its scalability so that even big companies can use it.
View full review »It is scalable. We have 100 users of this solution. We might increase its usage in the future in about eight months.
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Bob-Thomas
Virtual CIO/ CISO at Kyber Security
There's a couple of different ways to answer the question of scalability. They've built the TZ line wide enough so that we've got enough of a selection to be able to fit most bandwidth and user count situations. It's never going to fit everybody and it's not meant to. It shouldn't. It is a little challenging to try to get one of the boxes to do full wire speed. I'm not so sure inside that box, at the price point, you're going to solve that problem.
That's why we sold the 6650. One client has got a one gig fiber line and they're in a school. On an NSA 3600, he can't get over 400 on it. I told him he never would. Some days I'd be surprised to get 400, depending on the user count. The TZ lineup is pretty good, however, I'm not so sure I'd use the word scalable.
If what we mean by scalable is, "oh, well, I buy a 300 and I buy it for 10 users, but I can scale up to 30 users with that box," the answer to that is no you can't. If you ask "could I scale up to 25 users and move to 200 or 300 or 400 meg?" You can't. We've got somebody in that situation right now and we're quoting a box replacement because it just can't scale that way.
You can't necessarily scale on the appliance. You've got to get the right size. That's the easiest way to scale. If it's the right-sized appliance for the environment with some headroom then I think most situations users are going to be fine. There's going to be some issues where somebody cheaps out. For example, we worked with a law firm. They bought a TZ 300 because they didn't want to spend the money for the 500. Now they're going to have to spend the money for the 500 anyway because they need to scale up.
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Keyur_Shah
Sr. Executive IT / DP at a financial services firm with 1-10 employees
SonicWall TZ is scalable.
View full review »We have not needed to scale the solution very much, our clients are typically small to medium business environments where we do not need the scalability. However, The scalability could improve because there is not a centralized device manager.
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NirmalUnagar
Security Analyst at CyberTalos
The scalability of SonicWall TZ is good and easy to add users.
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Rajeshkumar Rajan
E-commerce Co-ordinator at First Group International
There are approximately 40 users using this solution and it is scalable.
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reviewer969738
Executive Project Manager at a non-profit with 1-10 employees
We have approximately 30 people using the solution in our organization.
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Rajendra Burla
Manager IT/ System Administrator/ Network Administrator at Indsec
It is fine in terms of scalability.
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Riccardo Bondesan
Consultant at Software Solutions
The solution can be used for small, and medium companies as long as the organization has the budget for it. I recommend Cisco Meraki for enterprise companies because it works on the cloud and is more scalable.
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reviewer1045617
Owner\Operator with 1-10 employees
I haven't grown out of one before, and therefore I haven't really had to scale. In terms of their throughput, we got close on one once. The thing is, if I call an inside connection, he'll get me in touch with his inside tech, which is different from tech support and they'll do some numbers. What my throughput is, the bandwidth I actually have, what I'm working with, et cetera. I seem to be always under. I'm really not in the hundreds of users. It's typically under 100. I work with smaller organizations, and there isn't much need to scale.
View full review »Most of the TZ series are for small to mid size office. I would not recommend these for large to enterprise solutions. I do use one currently for a small community school of 250 students with no issues.
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ITSuperv67
IT Supervisor at a construction company with 501-1,000 employees
Scalability is fine. Our needs do not vary regarding scalability. They are constant. We have about 50 users.
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Antonio Galvao
CIO at ENGEREDE SOLUÇÕES EM TI
In terms of scalability, we have to choose the right model according to the customer, their company's size, and according to the internet link capacity. Also according to the quantity of user parameters and the user quantity. The number of users and the link capacity are two parameters to define which SonicWall model is appropriate for that company.
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ShatrughanSingh
Senior Member Of Technical Staff at Flexera
Scalability is more than fine.
We have around 500 users with connectivity on it.
We do have plans to increase usage.
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Vpcoffice0877
Vice President & Chief Information Officer at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees
In terms of scalability, it is scalable to a certain extent. The downside is that one of the models has fiber-optic connections, but the other platforms do not support it.
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Tammy Elliott
IT Manager at K-Vac Environmental Services, Inc.
The solution works well.
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JigneshPatel1
System engineer at Colourtex Ind Ltd
This is a nice product in terms of scalability.
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ShaikSajid
Network & System Engineer at Construction Products Holding Co.
The solution is very scalable. We don't plan to increase the usage right now. We have sufficient coverage. We don't plan future deployment.
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Rias Majeed
CISM at Exceed NetSec LLC
Scalability-wise, with most of the mid-range solutions, there is no scalability. If you want to upgrade, you have to upgrade it. One good thing about SonicWall is the modular nature of the product. That means you can buy whatever part of the solution you want. That is one beauty of it. If you don't want IPS, you don't have to buy the IPS. That option, that's much better than anybody else.
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SrEngineer672
Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
You need to know the environment to ensure the unit you deploy suits. One negative about the SonicWALLS is the spec sheets for their numbers seem to be quite "optimistic". I used to divide by two to get an idea.
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Kaushik Soni
Business development executive at ITCG Solutions Pvt Ltd
It is a scalable solution.
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Jefferson Monfardini
IT Director at BRASP
It is a scalable product.
There are approximately 1,000 users among all of my customers.
I am an MSP SonicWall provider and about 50 SonicWall solutions spread across many customers, each with 10-100 users.
We intend to increase our usage because, in Brazil, we have a lot of problems with viruses, crypto viruses, and trojans. We can offer them security.
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MuraliGovindarajan
Senior Manager at a insurance company with 201-500 employees
The scalability of SonicWall TZ is good. It's easy-to-use and straightforward. One or two admins should be sufficient for user management.
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reviewer1776429
Pre Sales Security at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
SonicWall TZ is scalable. I just have one customer here who is suffering because of issues with sizing and scoping initially, but from what I've seen, this solution is scalable. It scales well.
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reviewer1442112
Product Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is scalable. The entry-level companies are taking TZ 300, TZ 400, and TZ 600 from us, and they have 100 to 150 users. The bigger companies ask for the next-generation firewall such as NSA 2650 and NSA 3650.
We have about 50 customers who are using SonicWall. They include government organizations and corporates. We have lots of clients who have already taken SonicWall. They have the license, support, and subscription for two years.
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Roy Haddad
Director at FOXMINDS Solutions LLC
The solution is scalable. Our client's user usage sizes vary. We have clients with five to 200 users using the solution. The number of connections is not limited and there is always room for expansion.
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Darshil Sanghvi
Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
We currently have 20-25 users in our branch offices. We started with 15 users and therefore we scaled up a bit, however, not in a massive sense. At this point, we likely won't scale anymore.
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Munjal Bhalgama
Owner at IT CARE
The solution is scalable. I rate it a nine out of ten.
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Patti Braun
WCOIL/IT Department at Lima Central Catholic
The scalability is good.
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RENE MOLINA
CONSULTOR at COMOL S.R.L.
SonicWall TZ is scalable.
View full review »I don't think they are designed to scale, but I haven't tested it.
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Odimas Nascimento
Diretor Comercial at a retailer with 1-10 employees
It is scalable. I didn't have any issues with scalability. Our clients are small organizations with 20 to 40 users.
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Umut Erol
Partner at 0ve1
SonicWall TZ is scalable. The scalability is very good.
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Bruce Bower
President with 11-50 employees
For the small clients that we're using it for it has quite a bit of capability. We don't need anything more.
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reviewer1625292
Creative Head/Director at a marketing services firm with 1-10 employees
The solution is scalable.
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Hamza_Farhan
Professioan Services Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Generally speaking no, but sizing correctly is main challenge, and that is why you need to make sure you select the right model.
View full review »I imagine that the product is very scalable, but what we are using is probably one-tenth of its capacity. We have around fifty users.
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Khizar Iqbal
IT Engineer at Asia General Contracting
It's scalable.
View full review »No issues encountered.
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reviewer1316163
DPO - Especialista em Proteção de Dados at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The solution is not very scalable. We often have to change the appliances. That's the downside on these kinds of projects because it then requires the company to make an additional purchase. Our clients usually have up to 400 users each.
No issues.
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Munjal Bhalgama
Owner at IT CARE
We have not needed to scale.
We regularly have between 60 and 70 users in our company. Our customers for this product are small and medium-sized businesses.
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reviewer1454613
VP of IT at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It is a scalable product. We have more than 40 people in our organization who are using this solution.
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reviewer1307946
Information Technology Network Support Specialist at a hospitality company with 51-200 employees
Most of our clients are small companies but the scalability is good.
View full review »No issues encountered.
View full review »Our IT administrator is just one person, me.
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SonicWall TZ
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about SonicWall TZ. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
767,995 professionals have used our research since 2012.