Check Point Appliances

New - Support for Check Point Quantum appliances. For more information see sk110052, sk139932, sk152733.

  • These appliances are supported with R80.30 Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator Take 166 or higher.

Note - If you revert from the R80.30 upgrade, the appliance will still boot with 64-bit Gaia kernel, even if it was originally 32-bit.

Management Server Appliances

Management Servers boot by default with 64-bit Gaia kernel after a clean install or upgrade to R80.30.

Check Point Product

Smart-1 205, 210, 225, 405, 410, 525, 625

Smart-1 3050, 3150, 5050, 5150

Security Management Server

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Log Server

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SmartEvent Server

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Multi-Domain Security Management Server

 

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Multi-Domain Log Server

 

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Smart-1 Appliances

Appliance

Management

Management + Log Server

Management + Log Server + SmartEvent

Gen V Smart-1

(405, 410, 525, 625, 5050, 5150)

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Smart-1 225, 3050, 3150

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Smart-1 210 (16GB RAM)**

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Smart-1 210 (8GB RAM)

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Smart-1 205 (16GB RAM)**

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Smart-1 205 (4GB RAM)*

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Smart-1 150 (16GB / 32GB RAM)

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Smart-1 150 (8GB RAM)*

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* Smart-1 205 and 210 appliances with default memory can run Security Management Server OR Log Server OR SmartEvent.

** We recommend that you upgrade the memory of Smart-1 205 to 16GB as part of the upgrade to R80.30.

Security Gateway and Standalone (Gateway + Management) appliances

The model numbers in this table are for the series of appliances that support R80.30.

Appliance Series

Security Gateway

Standalone (Gateway + Management)

2200

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3000

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4000

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5000, excluding 5900

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5900

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6500, 6800

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6200, 6400, 6600, 6700, 6900

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7000

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12200, 12600

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12400

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13000

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15000

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16000, 16000T, 16200, 16600 HS

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21000

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23000

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26000, 26000T

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28000, 28600 HS

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Cloud setup, VMware

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Using kernel mode only

* The 4200 appliance does not support a Standalone deployment.

** These appliance models do not support a Standalone deployment with their default RAM (4GB): 4400, 4600, 4800, 12200, and 12400. Upgrade these models to at least 8 GB RAM to support a Standalone deployment.

*** Standalone is only supported with appliances using HDD for storage, Standalone is NOT supported with appliances using SSD.

Appliance support for User Space Firewall (USFW)

The following appliances run in USFW mode by default when installed as a Security Gateway:

3600, 3600T, 3800, 6200, 6400, 6600, 6700, 6900, 7000, 16000T, 16200, 16600 HS, 23900, 26000, 26000T, 28000 and 28600 HS.

Note - All other Check Point appliances will boot in kernel mode by default.

Open Server / Cloud setup, VMware will boot in USFW when using 40 cores or more.

Appliances installed as Standalone cannot run in USFW mode.

Threat Emulation appliances

TEX100X, TEX250X, TEX1000X and TEX2000X are fully supported with R80.30.

Hardware Health Monitoring

R80.30 supports these Hardware Health Monitoring features for Gaia Check Point appliances:

  • RAID Health: Use SNMP to monitor the health of the disks in the RAID array, and be notified of volume and disk states.

  • Hardware Sensors: Use the Gaia Portal or SNMP to monitor fan speed, motherboard voltages, power supply health, and temperatures.

    Check Point Appliances

    Smart-1

    SNMP Hardware sensor monitoring (polling and traps)

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    Gaia Portal hardware sensor monitoring

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    RAID monitoring with SNMP

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Supported Platforms

Check Point Product

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

VMware ESXi

Microsoft Hyper-V*

Security Management Server

7.3 or higher

5.x, 6.x

Windows 2012 R2,
2016 (64-bit only)*

Multi-Domain Security Management Server

7.3 or higher

5.x, 6.x

Windows 2012 R2,
2016 (64-bit only)*

Security Gateway

Not Supported

5.x, 6.x

Windows 2016 (64 bit only)

* For the most up-to-date information about Microsoft Hyper-V, see the Virtual Machines section of the Hardware Compatibility List.