Make sure the disk partitions within the guest are aligned. When a write is issued by a guest to a thin provisioned disk to an unallocated segment it must wait for disk to grow and be zeroed.įor the Security Management which is performing lots of writes such as logs and policy installations, which are critical components of the infrastructure, one would not want IO performance bottlenecks. Thick provisioning allocates the entire virtual disk prior to use and is fully zeroed out, whereas Thin provisioning virtual disks are neither pre-allocated or pre-zeroed. VMware specific controllers, like the Paravirtual Controller are not supported or seen by the operating system.Īlways use Thick provisioning (thick/lazy is acceptable), never Thin-provision disk resources. Utilization of the LSI Logic SAS or LSI Logic Parallel adapters is recommended. Utilization of other VMware Guest OS Versions may not provide the optimal results, since Check Point OS is very close to the implementation of RedHat Enterprise Linux.įuture Check Point OS kernel versions may provide support for higher levels of Guest OS Versions. To determine the kernel version of the installed Check Point OS use this command: Using a higher level Guest OS Version than indicated by the respective RedHat Enterprise Linux version based on installed kernel versions is not recommended due to changes in how the Guest OS handles the hardware baseline, which can lead to strange results and require a complete rebuild. Upgrading an installation to a later Check Point OS version that uses a higher level version of the kernel does not require a change to the Guest OS Version. R80.30 EA Gateway (Gateway and Standalone) R80.20 T101 Gateway (Gateway and Standalone)
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Optimal virtual hardware presentation can be achieved when manually building a Virtual Machine running Check Point software by defining the Guest operating system (Guest OS Version) as : The following configurations are highly encouraged in order to optimize Check Point Security Management Server installed on VMware Virtual Machine: Virtual Machine Guest Operating System