Appliances
Introducing the newest generation of Security Onion appliances. With upgraded storage, network, processing, and memory these new appliances will make it even easier to make your adversaries cry!
Official Hardware Appliances for Security Onion
We know Security Onion's hardware needs, and our appliances are the perfect match for the platform. Leave the hardware research, testing, and support to us, so you can focus on what's important for your organization.
Integration with Security Onion
Security Onion's SOC interface provides appliance-specific information directly in the user-interface. Use this information to monitor the appliance's health in realtime. Also view the appliance front and rear panels, useful for walking through connectivity discussions with personnel in the data center. Only official Security Onion Solutions appliances are supported with this integration.
Support Security Onion
Not only will you have confidence that your Security Onion deployment is running on the best-suited hardware, you will also be supporting future development and maintenance of the Security Onion project!
Appliance Comparison
Model | Use Case(s) | Forward Node Throughput † | Standalone Throughput † | Max Data Storage * | Data Class | Form Factor | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 500 | Forward node in a branch office | 500 Mbps | N/A | 20 TB | SAS | 1U | |
 | 1000 | Standalone node in a small organization Forward node in a medium office | 1 Gbps | 500 Mbps | 40 TB | SAS | 1U | |
| 2000 | Standalone node in a small organization Forward node in a medium office | 2 Gbps | 1 Gbps | 45 TB | NVMe | 1U | |
 | 5000 | Forward node in a data center | 5 Gbps | N/A | 200 TB | SAS | 2U | |
 | 10000 | Forward node in a large data center Network monitoring limited to alerts and metadata | 10 Gbps ‡ | N/A | 15 TB | NVMe | 1U | |
| MN | Manager node in a distributed architecture Manager Search node in a small distributed architecture | N/A | N/A | 15 TB | NVMe | 1U | |
| SN7200 | Search node in a distributed architecture Manager Search node in a medium distributed architecture Warm Search node in a large distributed architecture Standalone node in a medium to large office | N/A | 3 Gbps | 120 TB | SAS | 2U | |
| SNNV | Search node in a distributed architecture Manager Search node in a medium distributed architecture Hot Search node in a large distributed architecture Standalone node in a medium to large office or data center | N/A | 5 Gbps ‡ | 45 TB | NVMe | 1U |
* Disk storage sizes are approximate, and represent the largest configuration available for the appliance. When referring to drive capacity, one terabyte, or TB, equals one thousand billion bytes and one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes. The operating system may use a different standard of measurement and report a lower capacity. Some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and other functions and will not be available for data storage.
† Actual performance depends on network traffic. Stated specifications represent the fastest configuration available for the appliance, however, other configurations are also available for specific use cases. Forward node estimates assume a separate Manager Node is used.
‡ The SOS 10000 Forward Node Throughput rating and SOS SNNV Standalone rating are achieved without full packet capture.
§ Network transceivers sold separately.
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