Hi, tks for your answer.
I've experience just with open servers, with firewall and ips blade active.
During tests i noticed that:
With the same firewall throughput (0,4 Gbps) and 1500client, if enablig both IPS client end server rules, the cpu usage increase up to about 60% instead of having just IPS server rules on.
I would schedule an appliance upgrade with IPS (client+server), antibot, antivirus, https inspection and so on. I would contain costs and at the same time have a durability of about 5, 6 years.
Obvioulsy i would avoid the situation of a h24 90-95% cpu load.
Watching at the appliances with just throughput distinguishing, I'm, not able to have enough informations to decide witch one is better.
I think that the cpu information may be useful to, at least, SUPPOSE if would be a great choice or not (if , for example, the 6200 cpu has about the same, 5x, 10x speed of my openserver processor)
Also, production experiences would be appreciated 🙂
Many thanks
Marco