R80 minimal hardware requirements?

R80 (management only) was released on the last day of March this year. Since then it is slowly crawling into the field. On 25th of April Check Point released the first HFA for it and also replaced ISO installation image with the build T109.

Yet, hardware requirements of R80 management remain a mystery.

We know that R80 management is using a new infrastructure that requires more of everything: CPU power, RAM, disk space. But how much more? What is the absolute minimum? What are the recommended settings? How can one scale an actual management installation? What are the tools to make sure new R80 management platform is good enough and powerful enough to run this latest and greatest version?

These are the question one struggles when considering moving to R80. When can Check Point answers them?

Share your thoughts, please.


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Gaia OS kernel, what kind of future it has?

Check Point Gaia OS is based on RHEL 5.2 distribution and kernel.

All supported FW versions today are using 2.6.18-92 kernel. According to RH release dates, it is almost 8 years old now. Since then, Red Hat released two major versions and numerous minor releases.

Most disturbing, RHEL support for production systems only lasts 10 years, according to RH Life Cycle policies. In reality that means less and less drivers being supported with older kernels, thus fewer compatible open server options available.

I would hope to see kernel changed with the last main release, R80, but apparently it is not the case.

Does Check Point plan to use a modern Linux kernel any time soon? I do not know. Do you?


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