New Customer Deployment: R82.10 versus R82.20 Production Best Practice

[yeruel]

Hi everyone

I am setting up a brand- Check Point environment for a customer.

As a practice for a stable production environment I plan to use R82.10 along with the latest Recommended Jumbo Hotfix because that is the official production release that is recommended.. Since R82.20 is now available I want to make sure with the community before I decide on the final setup. The deployment mode is ElasticXL with VSNext

Can you please let me know if using R82.10 is still the practice for long-term stability and easier support for a customer build right now?

Thanks, for your time and help!

[Martijn]

Hi,

Had the same discussion with the local Check Point team last week. We need to upgrade a customer from 81.20 to R82.x and what would be the best version? Also ElasticXL.

We have decided to upgrade to the recommended version with the latest available hotfix. As far as we know, R82.20 does not contain features for ElasticXL and VSNext you would miss if you go to R82.10. And R82.20 does not have a hotfix yet.

Unless you really need and want the R82.20 features, I would go for a recommended version with avaiblable hotfixes.

Regards,
Martijn