As with everything, business and security requirements and features and throughput you need from firewall. Virtual and physical firewall are pretty much nearly feature parity in most cases.
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vfk
Systems Manager / Technical Architect
VCP5-DCV, VCAP5-DCA, vExpert, ITILv3, CCNA, MCP