topic Re: CoreXL settings with VSNext ? in Firewall and Security Management

CoreXL settings with VSNext ?

Wolfgang — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 14:29:04 GMT

Do we have to configure the number of cores of a virtual system if we use VSNext ?

Older VSX requires to configure CoreXL settings in the virtual system via Smartconsole. Is the virtual system a VSNext object there is no such option.

I believe we don't need to configure this and dynamic_balancing will do the magic in the background, but I can't found anything related in the documentation ?

Re: CoreXL settings with VSNext ?

Chris_Atkinson — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 14:55:12 GMT

It's configured as an Advanced setting during VS creation via GAiA UI.

https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Security-Gateways/Building-VSNext-in-R82-walk-through-with-videos/td-p/232604

Re: CoreXL settings with VSNext ?

Bob_Zimmerman — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 19:08:55 GMT

There's also the VSNext section of the R82 VSX admin guide. The CoreXL config is changed locally on the system. Seems like a headache, but at least one you shouldn't have to deal with often. I also don't see any mention of whether changing the instance count causes an outage (I assume it does).

Re: CoreXL settings with VSNext ?

Wolfgang — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 12:42:48 GMT

My fault, the small dart expands the advanced settings. You can change the CoreXL instances, a restart of the whole VS followed with cpstop/cpstart.