Minimum Downtime Upgrade

This section provides instructions for Minimum Downtime (formerly, Zero Downtime) Upgrade:

Best Practice - Use the Central Deployment in SmartConsole Check Point GUI application used to manage a Check Point environment - configure Security Policies, configure devices, monitor products and events, install updates, and so on.. For more information, see the R81.20 Security Management Administration Guide > Chapter Managing Gateways > Section Central Deployment of Hotfixes and Version Upgrades.

This section provides instructions for Zero Downtime Upgrade:

• Minimum Downtime Upgrade of a Security Gateway Cluster

• Minimum Downtime Upgrade of a VSX Cluster

Important - You can use this upgrade method for all supported versions as described in the R81.20 Release Notes.