https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/High-Availability-Load-Balancing-for-virtual-gateways/m-p/137653#M20860 <P>Cluster XL between two gateways on VMware/ESX works as you would expect. Recommend unicast mode and ensuring dedicated resources for the nodes and a reliable time source.</P> <P>Refer also&nbsp;<SPAN>sk101214</SPAN></P> Tue, 04 Jan 2022 13:39:20 GMT Chris_Atkinson 2022-01-04T13:39:20Z https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/High-Availability-Load-Balancing-for-virtual-gateways/m-p/137647#M20859 <P>Hello Mates<BR />We are going to be migrating some of our sites from checkpoint appliances which are running in HA mode to virtual gateways.<BR />I was wondering how we would implement High Availability in the virtual world as traditional HA does not seem to be available on the virtual gateways.<BR />We would have two ESX servers and would be running the virtual gateways there.<BR />Would we rely on the VM servers to manage the fail over between gateways should there be a problem with the virtual gateway or the VM server itself?<BR />If there is any documentation around how this is achieved I would appreciate a link to it.<BR />Many Thanks</P> Tue, 04 Jan 2022 11:47:42 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/High-Availability-Load-Balancing-for-virtual-gateways/m-p/137647#M20859 Ian_Cresswell 2022-01-04T11:47:42Z https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/High-Availability-Load-Balancing-for-virtual-gateways/m-p/137653#M20860 <P>Cluster XL between two gateways on VMware/ESX works as you would expect. Recommend unicast mode and ensuring dedicated resources for the nodes and a reliable time source.</P> <P>Refer also&nbsp;<SPAN>sk101214</SPAN></P> Tue, 04 Jan 2022 13:39:20 GMT https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Firewall-and-Security-Management/High-Availability-Load-Balancing-for-virtual-gateways/m-p/137653#M20860 Chris_Atkinson 2022-01-04T13:39:20Z