ZVF - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

ZVF is a software-defined virtual firewall deployed as a virtualized appliance within private and hybrid cloud infrastructure. Designed for enterprises managing virtualized data center environments, it replaces physical firewall hardware with software-defined virtual instances that integrate natively with the ZStack Cloud networking stack. ZVF delivers firewall functionality as a cloud-native service, protecting both east-west (lateral) and north-south (perimeter) network traffic across VPC-isolated workloads and multi-tenant cloud environments.

Core capabilities include stateful packet inspection, access control list (ACL) management, security group policy enforcement, and network traffic filtering. ZVF supports high availability configurations and provides centralized policy management across distributed virtualized workloads. Logging and auditing of network traffic are built in, supporting compliance requirements for regulated industries. Deployment is on-premises within private or hybrid cloud infrastructure built on the ZStack Cloud platform.

ZVF targets enterprises and organizations in finance, government, healthcare, telecommunications, education, and manufacturing, particularly IT teams responsible for network security compliance in virtualized data center environments. By consolidating firewall functionality into a software-defined model, ZVF reduces dependency on dedicated hardware appliances while maintaining scalable, policy-driven security enforcement across complex cloud network topologies.