topic Re: MHO140 Upgrade from R81.20 to R82 in Hyperscale Firewall (Maestro)

MHO140 Upgrade from R81.20 to R82

Daniel_Hainich — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 07:19:49 GMT

Hi,

i have 2 MHO 140 running R81.20 Take98. due insufficient disk space i cannot import higher take with only 2,5GB. how i can import the R82 upgrade package with 5GB to the MHO?

what is the official way to upgrade the MHO to R82?

daniel

Re: MHO140 Upgrade from R81.20 to R82

emmap — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 07:34:25 GMT

The supported procedure is in the admin guide:

https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/R82/WebAdminGuides/EN/CP_R82_ScalablePlatforms_AdminGuide/Content/Topics-SPG/Maestro/Upgrading-Maestro-Zero-Downtime-MVC.htm?tocpath=Working%20with%20Quantum%20Maestro%20%7CUpgrading%20Maestro%20to%20R82%20%7C_____1

If you're having disk space issues please raise a TAC case and they can assist with freeing up space.

Re: MHO140 Upgrade from R81.20 to R82

Lesley — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 18:18:09 GMT

This helped me last week for jumbo update:

https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/Maestro/Maestro-Orchestrator-140-disk-space/m-p/245497#M3273

Re: MHO140 Upgrade from R81.20 to R82

JH_Ranger — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 01:14:38 GMT

Unfortunately, at present, it is not possible to do an in-place upgrade of the MHO-140 from R81.20 to R82. I struck a similar issue, with TAC giving me additional files to delete, in addition to the ones in the sk182325, but I was still about 1Gb short.

The only way to do this upgrade at present, is using lvm_manager in maintenance mode, to expand the /var/log/ partition, or perform a clean install from a USB. Both methods require you to be on-site, and consoled into the MHO.

Re: MHO140 Upgrade from R81.20 to R82

JH_Ranger — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 01:39:37 GMT

Hi emmap, would you happen to know if it's in the pipeline for CheckPoint to create a custom ISO which would get around the disk space issue? I recall either R81.10 or R81.20 having custom ISO images for Scalable solutions (~2Gb in size). Would be great if we had a similar package for R82.

Re: MHO140 Upgrade from R81.20 to R82

emmap — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 02:34:20 GMT

I'm not aware of any plans but I am quite far away from RnD. @ShaiF do you know if anything planned in this space that we can share here?

Re: MHO140 Upgrade from R81.20 to R82

Daniel_Hainich — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 05:44:18 GMT

i think lvm_manager is the best option. there are 35GB free disk space. fresh install (and recovery) seems more complicated. (sk174202)

Re: MHO140 Upgrade from R81.20 to R82

Daniel_Hainich — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 05:53:07 GMT

256GB SSDs are installed in the cheapest notebooks/chromebooks - i cannot understand why checkpoint uses 120GB SSDs in the MHOs. and why are the SSDs not partitioned in that way that an update/upgrade can be done hazzlefree