Introduction to Performance Tuning

There features improve the performance of Check Point Security GatewayClosed Dedicated Check Point server that runs Check Point software to inspect traffic and enforce Security Policies for connected network resources. / ClusterXL / Scalable Platform Security GroupClosed A logical group of Security Appliances (in Maestro) / Security Gateway Modules (on Scalable Chassis) that provides Active/Active cluster functionality. A Security Group can contain one or more Security Appliances / Security Gateway Modules. Security Groups work separately and independently from each other. To the production networks, a Security Group appears a single Security Gateway. In Maestro, each Security Group contains: (A) Applicable Uplink ports, to which your production networks are connected; (B) Security Appliances (the Quantum Maestro Orchestrator determines the applicable Downlink ports automatically); (C) Applicable management port, to which the Check Point Management Server is connected.:

  • SecureXL - accelerates traffic (see SecureXL)

  • CoreXL - runs multiple Firewall instances at the same time (see CoreXL)

  • HyperFlow - handles elephant connections on more than one CPU core in parallel (see HyperFlow)

  • Multi-Queue - configures multiple traffic queues for each network interface (see Multi-Queue)