11.1
Learn the latest performance and capacity numbers for the VM-Series firewall on GCP.
Many factors—such as the shared tenancy of a public cloud environment, GCP
instance size, and the number of cores—can impact performance. The performance and
capacities listed below have been generated using the indicated GCP instance size,
support for DPDK, and the following test conditions:
The VM-Series is deployed on GCP as a firewall between clients and servers in the
same availability zone and region. Throughput is measured based on bidirectional
traffic sent and received by the VM-Series.
Threat Prevention throughput is measured with App-ID, User-ID, IPS, antivirus,
and anti-spyware features enabled, utilizing 64 KB HTTP transactions.
IPsec VPN is measured with App-ID™ enabled and performance is tested between a
pair of VM-Series firewall instances in a placement group deployed within the
same availability zone and region. The performance will vary based on GCP
instance type and connectivity topology.
We recommend additional testing within your environment to ensure your performance and
capacity requirements are met. For a complete listing of all VM-Series features and
capacities, please see
compare VM-Series firewalls.
| Model |
2 vCPUs
(formerly VM-100)
|
4 vCPUs
(formerly VM-300)
|
8 vCPUs
(formerly VM-500)
|
16 vCPUs
(formerly VM-700)
|
32 vCPUs
|
64 vCPUs
|
| GCP instance size tested (recommended) | n2-standard-2 | n2-standard-4 | n2-standard-8 | n2-standard-16 | n2-standard-32 | n2-standard-64 |
| Firewall throughput (App-ID enabled) | 1.5 Gbps | 3 Gbps | 8 Gbps | 15 Gbps | 20 Gbps | 31 Gbps* |
| Threat Prevention throughput | 850 Mbps | 1.5 Gbps | 3.8 Gbps | 7 Gbps | 13.5 Gbps | 20 Gbps* |
| IPsec VPN throughput | 800 Mbps | 1.4 Gbps | 3.5 Gbps | 6.7 Gbps | 12 Gbps | 18 Gbps* |
| *estimated |
