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Policy complexity considerations

L1 Bithead

When creating policies, especially Security and QoS, how much consideration do I have to give to the number of policies?

If we want to get very granular with these policies, will we pay any significant penalty in performance (either in device administration or performance)?

(Specifically we have PA2050 that will route through 220Mbps max to internet--I have about 15 Security and about 10 QoS rules, would like to add more)

Is it better to group objects and minimize policy complexity, or (from a performance perspective) do I even need to worry about it?

Thank you

Simon.

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L3 Networker

Euh - you have 15 security policies on a 2050 and you are worrying about performance impact ?

Funny 😉

I wouldn't worry too much about performance , even with 1000+ policies.

Maybe managability and visibilty becomes an issue then , allthough by using (multiple) tags , you can even keep a +1000 policy understandable....

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