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Awesome. Thanks Greg. Yes, I already have the RAM in the unit. It's currently running as my "Low Power" VMs ESXi Host.
I'll keep her as is when I convert it over to OPNSense. Thanks for the reply.

Can you expand on what needs to be tweaked with the Sophos Hardware? I currently have an XG 210 REV3 that is coming to the End Of Life support with Sophos, so they are no longer going to provide me with the NFR licenses for Partners. Why, I don't understand. The hardware is still in perfect condition, and runs great!
Hence, why I was looking to try out OPNSense and PFSense on it. But, I want to use the LCD on the front panel as well.
In the meantime, I'm looking at re-purposing one of my smaller ESXi Hosts, and have it as a dedicated OPNSense or PFSense box as it has 6 x 1Gbe Intel Ports, and 2 x 10Gbe SFP+ Intel Ports. Make sure these will perform how I want them to, and then migrate to the Sophos Hardware once my NFR licenses expire at the end of March 2025.

Good day folks.
I'm new to the forum here, and am looking for some sage advice regarding turning one of my 1u Rackmount systems into a dedicated OPNSense solution.
It's a SuperMicro SYS800D
    4 core 8 thread Xeon-D @ 2.5Ghz)
    64GB of RAM.
    1TB NVMe
    6 x 1GbE NICs
    2 x 10GbE NICs
I was wondering if  having that much RAM would be beneficial, as I'm planning on configuring it to be as close to an NG Firewall solution as possible (SSL Decryption, IDP/IPS, etc)

Any thoughts or ideas would be beneficial to my little project.