topic Re: VSX Licensing in Firewall and Security Management

VSX Licensing

Heisenberg — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 06:45:27 GMT

Hi CheckMates,

We have a project to implement a VSX Security Gateway on our Network.

1. I would like to ask how does VSX Gateway being licensed in general?

2. Are the additional VSX license additive based on how many VS will be configured?

3. Relation of the VS License to the Gateway Container License?

4. Example we Buy a 16200 Base that supports up to 60VS, and there are add ons of CPSB-VS-25 or CPSB-VS-10 and the requirement is 35VS what VS licenses we need to purchase?

I saw appliances the supports up to X number of VS.

Re: VSX Licensing

Martin_Raska — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 07:50:09 GMT

Hi,

1. You have to have a general licence for the box eg. NGTP and then buy a VSX licence for each member in HA.

2. I think no, there is no additive.

3. VS licence is attached to GW container.

4. You have to buy at least VS-50 to support 35 VS instances.

Re: VSX Licensing

Chris_Atkinson — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 09:57:11 GMT

Each VSX Gateway or VSX Cluster Member requires its own license, bound to the VSX Gateway or VSX Cluster Member IP address. Each VSX Gateway or VSX Cluster license covers a predefined number of Virtual Systems (3, 10, 25, and 50) and these licenses are cumulative. The VSX licenses are applied in addition to the Security Gateway license (container and Software Blades).

Re: VSX Licensing

Oliver_Fink — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 10:26:55 GMT

Do not forget the Management Licenses for the VSes. As far as I understood this you do not need a Management License for VS0 but for every other VS multiplied by the number of physical gateways. This can become quite a big number.

Re: VSX Licensing

Chris_Atkinson — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 10:48:34 GMT

Depends on the cluster configuration, see sk119075

Re: VSX Licensing

Oliver_Fink — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 12:05:09 GMT

Yes, you are right. I had HA-Cluster in Mind. Using VSLS you do not have to count backup VSes. But anyhow, in a normal VSX environment you are using quite an amount of management licenses.

Re: VSX Licensing

CheckPointerXL — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 13:04:21 GMT

Hi Chris,

just a quick question, if i attach a MOB-200 to a vsx box, i can use it in 3,4,5 or more VSs, is this right? licenses should not be binded to VS also in this case

Re: VSX Licensing

Chris_Atkinson — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 13:35:03 GMT

The license is attached to the gateway and the blade can be enabled on child VS.