Green feature - improve power efficiency for your Check Point Enterprise appliances

[Yaron_Weiler]

Hi Everyone,

I’d like to highlight the Green feature, available starting R82.10 release, which can be enabled on supported Check Point Enterprise Firewalls Appliances to improve power efficiency during periods of low system utilization.

Green dynamically optimizes power usage by adjusting the uncore frequency when CPU load is low, while keeping the appliance fully operational. When higher performance is required, the system automatically returns to its default behavior. This transition is transparent and does not impact traffic handling, performance or security processing.

This makes Green particularly relevant for environments with variable workloads, allowing systems to reduce power consumption when operating below peak capacity, while continuing to deliver full performance when needed.

The feature is available starting with R82.10 and is disabled by default.

Supported appliances: 9300, 9400, 9700, 9800, 19100, 19200, 29100, 29200

To enable Green (Dynamic Balancing must be enabled):
set dynamic-balancing config ENABLE_GREEN value 1
save config

To disable Green:
set dynamic-balancing config ENABLE_GREEN value 0
save config

For additional details, prerequisites, and behavior, see SK184700

If you are running a supported appliance on R82.10 or later, it is recommended to review this feature and consider enabling it.

Best regards,
Yaron

[Timothy_Hall]

@Yaron_Weiler, how does enabling the Green Feature affect the CPU consumption of SND cores which due to poll mode, constantly run at 100% utilization if UPPAK is enabled?  Do they all still go 100% with Green enabled, or is there some kind of sleeping involved on SND cores to save power?  UPPAK is mandatory starting in R82.10, and this Green feature seems to be supported starting in R82.10 as well, so I'm wondering if they are related.  Thanks!

[the_rock]

Amazing!

[aheilmaier2]

any information on max power savings for each plattform ?

[Dolev]

Average power saving is 16%