A VIRTUAL DATA CENTER COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT FIREWALLS' PERFORMANCE

Whether virtual or real, every data centre depends on its network, and the firewall is a crucial component of that network for secure communication. Different types of firewalls, such as software firewalls, physical firewalls, virtual appliance firewalls, and kernel-integrated firewalls, can secure data centre connections. When choosing a firewall, there are many things to take into account, especially in a virtualized data centre where each firewall behaves differently depending on the situation. Reduced costs, effective administration extensibility, greater resource usage, scalability, and energy resilience are just a few benefits that virtualized data centres are supposed to produce. In this study, the use of firewalls is examined in relation to virtualized data centres. The effectiveness of several kinds of firewalls, including virtual firewalls, physical firewalls, and software .The performance of various types of firewalls, such as software firewalls, physical firewalls, virtual appliance firewalls, and kernel-integrated firewalls, is being analysed. Virtual data centre firewall implementation and performance comparisons explain how to design and which firewall type provides the best performance. In all conditions, it was shown that kernel-integrated firewalls worked properly. Virtual machine IP addresses and networks can vary, and the kernel-based firewall can dynamically update its rules to keep pace with such changes.