SonicWall NSa Scalability

SP
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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AJ
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.

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Suman Meena - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Manager at Renaissance Services

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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MohammedMateen - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at Transgulf Readymix

SonicWall NSa is easy to scale.

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RT
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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GK
Information Technology Team at Asia Satellite Telecommunications Holdings Ltd

I am still determining how scalable SonicWall NSa is.

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Nakul Chopra - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at IT Solution

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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AA
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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CR
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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JP
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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MH
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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AM
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.

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Francesco Berti - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT Manager at Tenax

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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SA
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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TH
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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VN
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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DW
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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MG
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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NH
IT Manager at a insurance company with 51-200 employees

The solution is scalable.

We have approximately 180 users using this solution.

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RK
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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RS
Senior Network Administrator at cogniter

We have 125 concurrent users at this time.

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KS
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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HH
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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SB
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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JA
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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DW
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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AM
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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SK
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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HL
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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AA
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.

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SSL - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

Yes. The CPUs are very weak.

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LV
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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PH
IT architect, Integrator at Ujv

The scalability of SonicWall NSa is good. We have approximately 2,000 users using it.

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BK
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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TB
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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MV
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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AK
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.

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it_user219912 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastucture - Cloud Admin at Primary S.A.

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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LW
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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BH
Senior Security Consultant. at Ingram Micro Inc.

It is very scalable.

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GN
IT Administrator at a legal firm with 501-1,000 employees

The scalability is fine. 

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SS
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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RV
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.

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Luke Wainwright - PeerSpot reviewer
Cybersecurity Engineer at Networks Unlimited Africa

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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SK
Project Specialist at integra software

This is a scalable solution.

We have approximately 2,000 users.

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MV
Solutions Specialist at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

My impression is that the solution is quite scalable.

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MN
Tech consultant at select softwares

These boxes are well-known for the amount of mechanics and users they can handle.

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PB
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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AL
NOC Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The scalability of SonicWall NSA is good.

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DS
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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MN
Owner at it logic

This is a scalable product. As our customer need increases we plan to increase our usage.

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KE
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.

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it_user634512 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Network Administrator at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

We never tried to scale it.

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JV
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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SP
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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AM
Creative Head/Director at a marketing services firm with 1-10 employees

It is scalable.

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SP
Lead Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

It's very sclable.

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HH
Presales Manager

We had a scalability issue.

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IC
ICT Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
it_user646620 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Systems Specialist at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees
MY
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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BK
Technical Lead at 64network security pvt ltd

There are no issues with scaling this solution. It's a scalable product.

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VK
CISO at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

This solution is not scalable. We have approximately 2,000 users.

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it_user577668 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Supervisor at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

There were no scalability issues at all!

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Buyer's Guide
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.
768,246 professionals have used our research since 2012.