SonicWall NSa Scalability
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Sergi Pinto
Internet Manager at MICROBLAU SL
It's very scalable. In some cases, it's necessary to change the firewall, however, it's easy to change as SonicWall has the ability to migrate the configuration from all firewalls to the new one.
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reviewer1425894
IT Manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
We have not tried to scale or add new devices. Our load has remained stable since implementation with no increases or decreases.
View full review »The scalability for SonicWall NSa is fine, so it's a seven out of ten.
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SonicWall NSa
March 2024
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SonicWall NSa is easy to scale.
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Rajesh Thakur
Technical Assistant (Senior) at Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management
I rate SonicWall NSa's scalability an eight out of ten. We have 700 student users on campus, but fewer than 500 concurrencies exist.
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GK1
Information Technology Team at Asia Satellite Telecommunications Holdings Ltd
I am still determining how scalable SonicWall NSa is.
View full review »To scale SonicWall NSa, you need to keep changing the model of the box, but this is the case in any other solution, so you go for hardware appliances, such as Fortinet, Sophos, Palo Alto Networks, and Check Point because after reaching a specific capacity, you need to change the model.
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Aziz-Ahmed
Group IT Manager at Direct Remit Limited
SonicWall NSa is not a scalable solution because we are using small boxes and can't scale them. For example, the solution works fine if it's for 20 users. The moment you add more than 20 users, it becomes slow.
Around 20 users are using SonicWall NSa in our organization. The solution is used extensively, 24/7, in our organization.
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reviewer1562688
Systems network admin at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees
The scalability is okay, It's marginal, however, it is possible.
We have about 300 people on-premises that use the solution.
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JigneshPatel1
System engineer at Colourtex Ind Ltd
SonicWall is scalable. Currently, I have two NSa 4600s and they are good for my users.
We have around 400 people using the solution.
At this time, there is no plan to increase usage.
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Mohamed Hekal
IT Manager at Esnad
We have about 150 users. Each employee configures up to three connections: one on a PC and one or two on mobiles.
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reviewer1120704
Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We had already scaled from the older version, the 5500, however, the 5600, is quite a new product. They have since changed the OS, so it ended up being a bit complex from the earlier version. The complexity is there, obviously. It's not that easy to manage. You really need to have someone with knowledge right there with you.
It is an internal firewall. All of our traffic, internal traffic, goes through this firewall only. There are somewhere around, at any point in time, 600, 700 users. We have total sync of 2,000 users, 2,000 plus. But at any point in time, 600 users are there, connected. It runs continuously, on a daily basis.
View full review »I rate the tool’s scalability a five out of ten. We don’t need to scale. However, if we need scalability, we will have to change the solution.
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Shahid Abbas
Manager of IT at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
The solution can scale, however, in Pakistan, it's not easy not to spend so much. One device can last over five to six years. You can say scale, however, you need to have an understanding of what functionality you will need over the years. Over four to six years, the device can fulfill your requirements. After six to seven years, you can replace it with another model or another brand to meet your updated needs.
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Thanarak Hongsuk
Cyber security consultant at a renewables & environment company with 201-500 employees
It is a scalable solution. I would rate it a seven out of ten.
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Vinothkumar-Narasimman
Cyber Security at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
We have expanded the solution with several of our customers and this worked great. We have over 200 customers who use SonicWall.
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reviewer1981041
Senior System Administrator at a government with 201-500 employees
The solution has been scalable.
About 150 people are using it in our organization.
I'm not sure if we have plans to increase usage at this time.
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MuraliGovindarajan
Senior Manager at a insurance company with 201-500 employees
We could expand by another 20 percent, and the product would still cover us. It shouldn't be a problem. We haven't faced many challenges. It's a gateway-level firewall product, and we have 140 users.
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Najeeb Haneefa
IT Manager at a insurance company with 51-200 employees
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RamaswamyK
M. I. S. Manager at Ruby Mills Ltd
The product that we have is not scalable. You'll have to buy a firewall model that suits your requirement with a certain amount of growth built into it. They have other products that are scalable, and they are the 9600 series ones.
Currently, we have about 300 users. We plan to keep using this solution.
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Ravinder Singh
Senior Network Administrator at cogniter
We have 125 concurrent users at this time.
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Kelly Sietmann
Senior Manager Information Technology Infrastructure at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Each model scales to a certain point. If you outgrow it, then you buy another version.
Nobody specifically uses this product but every day, all of the company traffic goes through it.
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Harvey Halasan
IT Staff at Holy Name University
The scalability of SonicWall NSa is good.
We have approximately 2000 employees and 6000 students using the solution. We have plans to increase the usage of the solution in the future.
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reviewer1613847
Principal Associate - CloudOps at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
You can scale the solution. We haven't used it beyond 1,000 to 1,500 users. Beyond that, I'm not sure what it can handle. I haven't really tried to scale it too much.
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Jeremi Albrizio
Information Security Manager at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees
Just adding multiple sites is easy. Clustering them is pretty straightforward. But if I needed to expand them in series, that's a little bit more complicated.
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reviewer1112532
President at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
When you buy it based on the load that you expect to use, there are no scalability issues, unless you swap them out.
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reviewer1120704
Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
At any point in time we have more than 600 users.
We do not have plans to increase the number of users.
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reviewer1384011
IT Manager at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
It is not scalable. We can upgrade to a new box depending on the subscription. We have a three-year subscription, so we will continue with it for three years. After that, we would look for an alternative tool based on our requirements. Currently, we have approximately 250 plus users.
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Hector Lopez
IT and Project Manager at Network Secure El Salvador
We have about 20 people in the company who are protected by this product, and I think that the scalability is fine. However, I would say that it is best for small to medium-sized organizations.
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reviewer1314267
Director of IT at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
The scalability is pretty good. I can scale out and add a firewall within a new office if I need to. If an organization wants to scale, they should be able to do so with no problems. Everyone working in our office uses the solution. Anybody that has a work laptop that needs to remote work from outside the office can do so as well. It's 100% used across the board.
View full review »Yes. The CPUs are very weak.
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Leen Van Gent
IT Superintendent at a mining and metals company with 11-50 employees
I don't know about scalability because I have only worked with this box. There are probably faster boxes on the market. This box should be sufficient for 300 employees and my impression is that performance is suffering if too many people are trying to get through it.
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Petr HEZINA
IT architect, Integrator at Ujv
The scalability of SonicWall NSa is good. We have approximately 2,000 users using it.
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Balaraju K
Technical Lead at 64network security pvt ltd
It's cloud-based, so the scalability is good, and it's suitable for any size of customer.
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reviewer1522938
Network Security Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The scalability level is medium. They are okay with the model, the throughput, and the traffic rate.
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Maksim Vedernikov
Quality engineer of the 1st category at Modern Expo
The scalability is quite good. You can scale well across locations very well for not too much cost. If a company needs to expand, it can do so relatively easily.
Also, cost-wise, it's very affordable to scale up. It's not expensive to add hardware and licenses as needed. They make upgrading very cheap.
We have 200 people on the solution. That said, they are using with IPsec tunnel. They don't use all of the capabilities of the hardware. They are using it just to encrypt tunneling between the sites.
We may not continue to sue the solution as we have found a solution that is better and that can help us get faster than IPsec can. We're looking instead at MACsec.
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Ajit-Kumar
Cloud Technical Specialist at nimit tech
I would rate the scalability of this solution an eight, on a scale from one to 10, with one being the worst and 10 being the best.
View full review »None, but if you need more you have to pay licenses and if it is no enough that you have to buy a mayor model of SonicWall.
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Larry Williams
Owner/Founder at team one consulting
Scalability is marginal. SonicWall is currently tied to hardware, so the only way to scale is with new hardware.
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Bishoy Habib
Senior Security Consultant. at Ingram Micro Inc.
It is very scalable.
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reviewer1659987
IT Administrator at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees
The scalability is fine.
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reviewer1052460
Network & System Engineer at a construction company with 10,001+ employees
It is scalable. We have around 100 users, and we have plans to increase usage.
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reviewer997284
Network Engineer at a maritime company with 201-500 employees
Scalability is an issue. If you need to scale for more performance you will need another product in a higher range. You cannot scale the product itself. That's not possible.
It is not scalable at all.
We have about 350 users. I do the maintenance on my own.
We use it daily.
We do not have plans to increase at the moment.
View full review »The solution was quite scalable. If a company needed to expand it, it could do so.
We had 300 or so users at our organization using the product.
I do not work for the company anymore. I can't speak to their plans for the solution and if they plan to increase usage or not.
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SathishKumar
Project Specialist at integra software
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Marcio Vieira
Solutions Specialist at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
My impression is that the solution is quite scalable.
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Manoj Nair
Tech consultant at select softwares
These boxes are well-known for the amount of mechanics and users they can handle.
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reviewer1126683
IT Security Analyst at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees
SonicWall is scalable. Depending on the size of the box that I have, if the demands increase then I can upscale it. These demands are based on the users and their activities. We have between 2,000 and 2,500 users.
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reviewer1590810
NOC Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The scalability of SonicWall NSA is good.
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Darshil Sanghvi
Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The solution is scalable. There are 200 people using this solution in my companies branch office.
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Manish Nalawade
Owner at it logic
This is a scalable product. As our customer need increases we plan to increase our usage.
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Kenneth Eygenraam
Solutions Architect at Quartet Service Inc.
I don't think that scalability is a pertinent criterion for firewalls because they're hard-coded by the ASICs that go into them. When we rent a firewall to a customer instead of selling one, that customer has an upgrade path available. In this regard, it is scalable because we can switch them to a larger model if they outgrow it. Otherwise, it's limited by the ASIC.
View full review »We never tried to scale it.
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reviewer1518225
Director Comercial at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
SonicWall has 12 different models for enterprises and service providers. They have a wide range of models to meet the needs of customers of all sizes.
We have all kinds of clients. We have service providers, and we have small, medium, and big companies as clients. In the biggest company, there are 25,000 users. It is a university here in Panama.
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Shaik Parveez
Network Engineer at commit
I have set up SonicWall NSA for smaller companies in Dubai. Most of my customers are small to medium-sized with between 20 and 100 users. I would say that it is scalable.
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reviewer1625292
Creative Head/Director at a marketing services firm with 1-10 employees
It is scalable.
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ManagDir227
Lead Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It's very sclable.
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Presalesa8b7
Presales Manager
We had a scalability issue.
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reviewer1646865
ICT Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Good
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Muhammed Yasir
Director Information Systems at a transportation company with 51-200 employees
I don't know because we are not using >30% resources of this device.
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Balaraju K
Technical Lead at 64network security pvt ltd
There are no issues with scaling this solution. It's a scalable product.
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reviewer1447320
CISO at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
This solution is not scalable. We have approximately 2,000 users.
View full review »There were no scalability issues at all!
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SonicWall NSa
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about SonicWall NSa. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
767,847 professionals have used our research since 2012.