User Reviews of Fortinet FortiGate-VM & SonicWall NSv

Updated April 2025

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Fortinet FortiGate-VM review

RajeshKumar20
RajeshKumar20
Senior Engineer at Team Computers
An easy-to-manage and configure tool that provides ample documentation to help...
In SonicWall, there is no need to buy two boxes for HA. SonicWall will work fine if you buy one box with the fully licensed set and get another box without a license. When it comes to Palo Alto Networks or Fortinet FortiGate-VM, people have to buy the same type of boxes with the same features to ensure that they get HA. The need to buy the...
SonicWall NSv review

Sumesh Panikkar
Sumesh Panikkar
Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer at Khansaheb
Provides effective threat prevention and helps improve security
We face some challenges when we upgrade the solution. If I use NSv 400, I can't upgrade to the next generation. We cannot upgrade the VM to the next generation. We have to rebuild a new VM and copy the configurations. We cannot upgrade straightaway. The solution must allow us to upgrade the same machine to a newer version without many changes.

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