OPNsense Scalability

Akram Zaki Hussein - PeerSpot reviewer
System and Network Administrator at El Sadat City Language School

During the installation process, there were some limitations, but it was generally fine for specific tasks. Aside from these aspects, it demonstrated good scalability. I would rate it eight out of ten.

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Michael Dietze - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at Communication Concept GmbH

I would rate the scalability a five out of ten. 

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Eddy Ramirez - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Security Director at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have about six people on the solution in between companies. The numbers of users vary from around 120 users to up to 5,000 users.

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it_user1140060 - PeerSpot reviewer
Machine designer at La Poste

I don't need scalability. It is a small company. It is a small network. I just need a small firewall at the entrance of the network. I don't need to expand it. 

In terms of its users, it is the firewall to protect the company, and I am the only one to touch this product.

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Frqncis Massolin - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Projects Director at France Compétences

I rate the solution’s scalability a nine out of ten.

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Elisee TAMBA - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder/IT Consultant at Open IT World

It is a scalable solution, but I didn't try to scale it because I just used one instance.

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Amirsaeed Iloukhani - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Consultant at Bank Meli Exchange

The scalability of OPNsense is very good.

I have approximately 15 customer companies using this solution.

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PM
IT Manager at Pride in Azure

In terms of scalability, I rate it around eight out of ten because it excels in handling various tasks. Beyond security features, it supports routing, VPN setups, and traffic monitoring with additional packages like Snort and Suricata. This flexibility allows for a wide range of functionalities. I have 200 users for the solution.

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WS
IT Infrastructure and Enterprise Systems Director at Orascom Investment Holding

I would rate the scalability a nine out of ten. There is room for improvement.

In my organization, there are 400 users, and OPNsense serves as our gateway and proxy for all of them. Therefore, all the users go through the gateway. 

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RA
Founder - Director at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Most of the BSD/FreeBAS or Linux-based software-defined firewalls support vertical and horizontal scaling 'scaling out and scaling up'(this all depends on how it has been architecture) based on the requirements.

Keeping Technology and Architecture governance with the leading practice of security, availability, and scalability as critical elements in mind. Few stated features make these products scalable and highly available, though, based on load and constant monitoring would require tuning from time to time.

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Ralf Wenzel - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Architect at infotek-software GmbH

We run it as an NVA cluster with Azure, and it has good scalability, but when we have bigger deployments, we would use another firewall. I'm not sure if it makes sense to scale up. OPNsense has a very good niche market in comparison to FortiGate, Azure Firewall, or other firewalls. If a customer is starting in the cloud and has 100 or 200 users, I would always recommend OPNsense, but if you have a big installation, and you have a good DevOps team that deploys via source code and things like this, then I would not recommend it. So, the software itself may be scalable, but I wouldn't call it an enterprise-scale firewall.

In terms of people working with this solution, I'm an architect, and we've got two people for monitoring and setup. Its usage is increasing. It has not been that long since we started using OPNsense, and it fills a gap. Not everybody needs a full-scaled enterprise firewall. So, it will be a part of our business. We've found a niche there.

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ML
IT System Administrator at Boreas d.o.o. Kresevo

It's very flexible and scalable, and I would rate the scalability an eight out of ten. It can adapt to changing needs easily. Around twenty customers are currently using OPNsense.

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YaserAljohani - PeerSpot reviewer
OT/ICS Information Security Specialist at SANS

We have not explored the scalability. We are only a small lab with two to three workstations.

I have a colleague working with me, together. We meet weekly to share the progress we have.

I use the enterprise version daily. It's scalable, stable, they have proper documentation and support. We get daily updates from the vendor.

OPNsense is a great tool but it lacks information that you need before deploying it.

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Anwar Sleem - PeerSpot reviewer
Regional Director at Ceitcon

We have 25 users who are all technical people using OPNsense in my organization.

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

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Gregor Godler - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps at Halcom

We have approximately two large customers using this solution.

I rate the scalability of OPNsense a seven out of ten.

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ENOCH AMARH ANNOR ATTOH - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Defense Incident Responder at The Quantum Group, Ltd

It is a scalable solution. Approximately fifty people are using the solution. 

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PB
Key Client Manager at O2

It is a scalable solution. We haven't encountered any performance issues.

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Zbigniew Żelazek - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT and Automation department at PGB Service

It is a scalable solution. We have 20 connections between sites, and about 100 users use the solution.

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MK
Consultant at INCONSYS GmbH

We have 250 people in our company using this program who are able to run the SAP systems with side-to-side connections between the company and the customers. We have six people for deployment and maintenance. I am responsible for the networking. 

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TS
Director at CIIT

OPNsense is a scalable solution, and I find it very good, but it still depends on your requirement and what you want to achieve from OPNsense.

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FF
Cloud and Infrastrcture manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

OPNsense is commonly used in large enterprise companies.

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ST
Senior Network Engineer at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

We can easily scale the solution if we need to. It's not difficult. 

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JL
Director at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

The solution is scalable. 

As we have in excess of 2,000 solutions deployed in the field, there is no need for us to increase its usage. It is already sufficiently increased. 

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SP
Technical support engineer at ADVANT računalniški inženiring, komunikacije, svetovanje in distribucija d.o.o.

There was no need for scaling in our case. 

Our customers are mostly small-sized businesses. 

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HP
Senior Network Architect at Virtua Technologies

This product is very scalable. I always buy hardware that can handle a lot of connections and a lot of users. So, in terms of scalability, all you have to do is upgrade your hardware. Or, it is especially scalable if you use the VM version because you only have to provision more resources.

We regularly have between 20 and 50 users, although sometimes it is as little as 5 or 10.        

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CA
Owner and business consultant at networks srl

It scales well for our needs. I haven't tried any horizontal or vertical scaling so far.

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FK
Support Engineer at Techaccess Pakistan

We have two people running the solution and another 50 to 80 people using the solution, so we have a relatively small setup.

The solution is scalable and can be deployed to multiple VMs.

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AB
CIO at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

We don't have too much traffic. With our traffic, it's working great. We don't expect to have a very big traffic load. Directly within our offices, maybe 20 or 30 people. 

For the internet server, they are using our service. We have people on 100 home VPN connections. The final users are in the thousands. We are using it in all our offices.

We only use OPNsense now. We migrated from FortiGate. We removed all FortiGate software. That is the only problem we had using the tool.

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EA
Founding Partner, General Manager at emsteknoloji

This solution is scalable. I may scale in the future.

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NW
Senior Solution Manager at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

OPNsense is scalable.

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AS
Vice President at Jagils egypt

We have two customers who use this solution and ten people on my team. My clients are enterprise-size. 

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SH
Director at a training & coaching company with 10,001+ employees

We have a maximum of approximately 80 users using this solution on a daily basis.

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FD
System Administration Specialist at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

The scalability of OPNsense is also very good.  

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