User Reviews of Fortinet FortiGate-VM & SonicWall NSv

Updated December 2025

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Fortinet FortiGate-VM review

Karel Ondracek
Karel Ondracek
Network Administrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Faced hardware limitations and setup challenges but have improved network...
I spent much time finding exact firmware on Aruba which was working with these guns, but it is not optimal because it is not the latest version, so there could be potential security problems. We decided to replace those access points with another one. I personally have trouble because I don't know the exact life cycle of Fortinet...
SonicWall NSv review

Samodthemiya Gamage
Samodthemiya Gamage
Senior Cybersecurity Analyst at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
Secures east-west cloud traffic and improves threat visibility through deep...
SonicWall NSv offers great features. I cannot pinpoint a single best feature, but the best feature is the ability to deliver the full, high-efficiency inspection power of a physical SonicWall, including zero-day defense using Real-Time Deep Memory Inspection to the cloud, efficiently removing the performance versus cloud trade-off typically...

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