We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate-VM and SonicWall NSSP based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."We are very happy with the general bandwidth agility we have seen from one website to another website."
"The security features are about the best that I've seen anywhere."
"The reporting and monitoring are very good."
"Some of the valuable features are the firewall, IPS, web filter, and gateway capabilities. Additionally, it is easy to use and flexible."
"Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable."
"The inspection and web security features are most valuable."
"Some of the key features of the solution is that it has good reporting, you can receive many details from the connection, for example, clients and website information."
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"Its technical support is excellent."
"The solution can scale well."
"The solution is very secure, and its technical support is on point."
"The most valuable feature is the WAN optimization."
"Technical support is very helpful."
"It is very versatile."
"The solution offers good documentation."
"Technical support has been super responsive and dedicated to getting any challenges resolved."
"SonicWall NSSP is stable and scalable too."
"The VPN functionality is really good. Overall, the whole device is very easy to manage. The software that comes with it is also good."
"It has been delivering results efficiently. Its configurations and updates have been easy. It is also user-friendly."
"The solution's pricing is good."
"It could use more templates for third-party site-to-site VPN setups other than FortiGate and Cisco."
"There were quite a few problems with the stability of the system."
"They should improve the interface to make it more user-friendly."
"There are some license issues. Not every feature must have a separate license. There must be some of kind synergy between the license so we don't have to pay for every individual license that we would like to have."
"FortiLink is the interface on the firewall that allows you to extend switch management across all of your switches in the network. The problem with it is that you can't use multiple interfaces unless you set them up in a lag. Only then you can run them. So, it forces you to use a core type of switch to propagate that management out to the rest of the switches, and then it is running the case at 200. It leaves you with 18 ports on the firewall because it is also a layer-three router that could also be used as a switch, but as soon as you do that, you can't really use them. They could do a little bit more clean up in the way the stacking interface works. Some use cases and the documentation on the FortiLink checking interface are a little outdated. I can find stuff on version 5 or more, but it is hard to find information on some of the newer firmware. The biggest thing I would like to see is some improvement in the switch management feature. I would like to be able to relegate some of the ports, which are on the firewall itself, to act as a switch to take advantage of those ports. Some of these firewalls have clarity ports on them. If I can use those, it would mean that I need to buy two less switches, which saves time. I get why they don't, but I would still like to see it because it would save a little bit of space in the server rack."
"Cisco Meraki products are rising very quickly in the cloud and the connected era. Meraki products offer much better ROI, upgradability, and manageability."
"I don't like that anything more than very basic reporting is not included."
"To some degree, it's almost a question as to why some of this stuff isn't simpler. For example, for an AP deployment, while it's integrated, the number of steps that you have to go through in order to get the AP up, seems like a lot."
"Their offering for MFA isn't the cleanest."
"The product's initial setup phase is a bit complex."
"The user interface (UI) and the performance of interface both need improvement."
"The price is problematic."
"In terms of improvement, there have been some problems with the bandwidth of the security layer."
"The biggest area for improvement is storage configuration. It could be smoother."
"It has a monitoring tool, but it could be improved."
"Now they do have the ability to pop up a command line, which is nice, however, the fact that you can't do everything within the GUI is probably a problem."
"No security product is foolproof against hackers, intruders, and other such things. As a security product, they have to keep pace in terms of protection from new hackers and intruders."
"The solution's stability and scalability also need improvement."
"Its reporting functions can be improved. It has decent reporting, but you got to pay a lot more money for it. That's where it begins to fall apart. It comes with minimal zero reporting unless you buy some extra modules. With those extra modules, you can get all the data, but it takes a while to put together what you need for your customer. It is for technical people, but there is no executive summary of the reporting."
"The user interface, the GUI, could be improved."
Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews while SonicWall NSSP is ranked 38th in Firewalls with 4 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.4, while SonicWall NSSP is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate-VM writes "An easy-to-manage and configure tool that provides ample documentation to help with the setup phase". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall NSSP writes "Good VPN functionality, very good support, easy to manage, and meets all of our needs". Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense and Netgate pfSense, whereas SonicWall NSSP is most compared with SonicWall NSa.
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