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NSv SERIES VIRTUAL FIREWALL

Get the scalability and agility of the cloud with all the security advantages of a physical firewall. The NSv Series is custom built to secure the cloud and shield your enterprise from resource misuse attacks, cross-virtual-machine attacks, side-channel attacks and common network-based exploits and threats.

Overview

Cloud Agility. Maximum Security. 

The SonicWall NSv Series virtual firewall offers you all the security advantages of a physical firewall with the operational and economic benefits of virtualization, including system scalability and agility, speed of system provisioning, simple management and cost reduction.  

NSv delivers full-featured security tools to shield all critical components of your private/public cloud environments from resource misuse attacks, cross-virtual-machine attacks, side-channel attacks and common network-based exploits and threats. With infrastructure support for reliable distributed clustering and scaling, the SonicWall NSv Series ensures system resiliency, operational uptime, service delivery and availability, and conformance to regulatory requirements.

Features & Benefits

  • Flexible Deployment Options

    Harness the power of next-gen firewall security in the cloud. The NSv virtual firewalls deliver essential security to both private cloud (ESXi, Hyper-V) and public cloud (AWS, Azure) platforms, along with hybrid environments. As the threat landscape evolves and takes advantage of various cloud and virtual workloads, this extensive coverage is crucial for the security of your enterprise.

  • Blocks More Attacks With RTDMI™

    Don’t leave your security up to chance. SonicWall’s patent-pending Real-Time Deep Memory Inspection (RTDMI™) technology enhances our award-winning multi-engine Capture Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) sandboxing service. The RTDMI engine proactively detects and blocks mass market, zero-day threats and unknown malware by inspecting directly in memory.

  • Consistent Policy and End-to-End Visibility

    The new SonicOSX provides admins a centralized location for configuring policies with a user-first design emphasis. Create and maintain complete end-to-end visibility with single pane of glass management with full policy control. Have a full view into intra-host communication between virtual machines for threat prevention.

  • Unified Management and Integrated Solutions

    NSv provides a seamless experience with unified policy management. Unified Policy provides a more streamlined experience that reduces configuration errors and deployment time for a better overall security posture.

  • Low Cost of Ownership

    The NSv series of virtual firewalls allows you to reduce costs by working through cloud computing and virtual networks. It also has a low total cost of ownership, so you can focus on your bottom line instead of the cost of securing it.

Native Integration Into Your Public Cloud Provider

Harness the power of next-gen firewall security in the cloud. The NSv virtual firewalls deliver essential security to public cloud platforms such as AWS and Microsoft Azure, along with hybrid environments. As the threat landscape evolves and takes advantage of various cloud and virtual workloads, this extensive coverage is crucial for the security of your enterprise. Secure your public cloud environment today.

Secure Your Public Cloud

Three Deployment Options

Seamless Integration with Your Private Cloud Provider

Even private cloud networks need the best in security. The NSv virtual firewalls deliver essential security to private cloud platforms such as Hyper-V and ESXi, along with hybrid environments. The extensive coverage of various cloud and virtual workloads is crucial to meet the evolving threat landscape. Secure your private cloud environment today.

Compare SonicWall NSv Series Firewall Models

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NSv 870
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  • Operating System

    SonicOSX 7.0

  • Supported Hypervisors

    VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, KVM

  • Supported Public Cloud Platforms

    AWS*, Azure*

  • Licensing

    BYOL, PAYG

  • SSO Users

    15,000

NSv 870
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  • Operating System

    SonicOSX 7.0

  • Supported Hypervisors

    VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, KVM

  • Supported Public Cloud Platforms

    AWS*, Azure*

  • Licensing

    BYOL, PAYG

  • SSO Users

    15,000

  • Firewall Inspection Throughput

    14 Gbps

  • Application Inspection Throughput

    N/A

  • IPS Throughput

    8 Gbps

  • Anti-Malware Inspection Throughput

    N/A

  • VPN Throughput

    8 Gbps

  • Maximum Connections

    3M

  • Site-to-Site VPN Tunnels

    10,000

  • IPSec VPN Clients (Maximum)

    2000(6000)

  • SSL VPN Clients Included

    2

  • SSL VPN Clients Maximum

    300

NSv 470
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  • Operating System

    SonicOSX 7.0

  • Supported Hypervisors

    VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, KVM

  • Supported Public Cloud Platforms

    AWS*, Azure*

  • Licensing

    BYOL, PAYG

  • SSO Users

    10,000

NSv 470
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  • Operating System

    SonicOSX 7.0

  • Supported Hypervisors

    VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, KVM

  • Supported Public Cloud Platforms

    AWS*, Azure*

  • Licensing

    BYOL, PAYG

  • SSO Users

    10,000

  • Firewall Inspection Throughput

    9 Gbps

  • Application Inspection Throughput

    N/A

  • IPS Throughput

    6 Gbps

  • Anti-Malware Inspection Throughput

    N/A

  • VPN Throughput

    3.5 Gbps

  • Maximum Connections

    1.5M

  • Site-to-Site VPN Tunnels

    6000

  • IPSec VPN Clients (Maximum)

    2000(4000)

  • SSL VPN Clients Included

    2

  • SSL VPN Clients Maximum

    200

NSv 270
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  • Operating System

    SonicOSX 7.0

  • Supported Hypervisors

    VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, KVM

  • Supported Public Cloud Platforms

    AWS*, Azure*

  • Licensing

    BYOL, PAYG

  • SSO Users

    500

NSv 270
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  • Operating System

    SonicOSX 7.0

  • Supported Hypervisors

    VMware ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, KVM

  • Supported Public Cloud Platforms

    AWS*, Azure*

  • Licensing

    BYOL, PAYG

  • SSO Users

    500

  • Firewall Inspection Throughput

    6 Gbps

  • Application Inspection Throughput

    N/A

  • IPS Throughput

    4 Gbps

  • Anti-Malware Inspection Throughput

    N/A

  • VPN Throughput

    1.4 Gbps

  • Maximum Connections

    225,000

  • Site-to-Site VPN Tunnels

    75

  • IPSec VPN Clients (Maximum)

    50(1000)

  • SSL VPN Clients Included

    2

  • SSL VPN Clients Maximum

    100

Gen 7 Firewalls: Our Platform-Ready NGFW

SonicWall’s Gen 7 NGFWs offer vastly improved stability, performance, and threat protection regardless of encryption or file size. Features like stateful high-availability and power supply redundancy deliver ‘always-on’ continuity, while superior UX and simpler, single-pane-of-glass management ease complexity. These firewalls deliver superior UX and simpler, single-pane-of-glass management. And with SD-WAN and DPI-SSL included, they offer an industry-leading TCO.

Introducing SonicOSX

SonicOSX is a major new upgrade to the operating system that enables you to configure and maintain a unified policy. It’s unique emphasis on user-first design allows your team to view meaningful visualizations of threat information and actionable alerts, so you can configure contextual security policies with point-and-click simplicity.

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Free Trial

Try a 30-day free trial of the SonicWall NSv next-generation virtual firewall. When you sign up, a SonicWall sales representative will reach out to set up your trial.

  • The NSv public cloud offering is available across Azure and AWS platforms.
  • The NSv private cloud trial is available on ESXi.

See For Yourself

Resources

Solution Brief
What to Look For in a Next-Gen Virtual Firewall
ebook
Modern Layered Security: Mapping the Must-Have Security Layers to Proactively Defend Your Business
Deployment guides
SonicWall NSv Getting Started Guides

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