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Does checkpoint support the C3 Machine Type in GCP?

johnnyringo — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 17:26:16 GMT

Getting ready to upgrade our management server from 81.10 to 81.20. It's my standard practice to always deploy on the newest supported machine type, and I see in the deployment template, these are the options:

C3 - Intel Sapphire Rapids
N2D - AMD EPYC
N2 - Intel Cascade Lake / Ice Lake
N1 - Intel Skylake

C3 is the newest, but when I attempt to deploy, I get this error:

Error: googleapi: Error 400: Invalid value for field 'machineType': 'projects/my-project/zones/us-central1-b/machineTypes/c3-standard-4'. NetworkInterface NicType can only be set to GVNIC on instances with GVNIC GuestOsFeature., invalid

The google documentation explains that the image's guestOsFeatures metadata must have nic-type = gVNIC but I don't see that set on the latest R81.20 image:

$ gcloud compute images describe projects/checkpoint-public/global/images/check-point-r8120-gw-byol-cluster-631-991001709-v20241105

archiveSizeBytes: '13915442176'
creationTimestamp: '2024-11-05T04:18:06.913-08:00'
description: Check Point CloudGuard IaaS GW
diskSizeGb: '100'
enableConfidentialCompute: false
family: check-point-r8120-gw-byol-cluster
guestOsFeatures:
- type: MULTI_IP_SUBNET
id: '3773117695928021521'
kind: compute#image

Thus, I don't think C3 is actually an option currently. If I use T2 or N2D, the same deployment works fine

Re: Does checkpoint support the C3 Machine Type in GCP?

PhoneBoy — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 17:46:25 GMT

Possible that's an oversight we need to correct in the image, but C3 should otherwise be supported (at least according to R&D).

Re: Does checkpoint support the C3 Machine Type in GCP?

PhoneBoy — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 14:27:04 GMT

R&D actually checked this and confirmed C3 images won't work because of the gVNIC requirement at present.
It is on the roadmap to support these, however.

Re: Does checkpoint support the C3 Machine Type in GCP?

Kjartan_Flam_Oh — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:11:54 GMT

Do you know if this is still on the roadmap?

Re: Does checkpoint support the C3 Machine Type in GCP?

Shont — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:41:11 GMT

gVNIC support will be included in R82.20, which will enable support for C3 machine types.