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Hi All,
We are planning to upgrade our VSX cluster from R77.30 to R80.30. Is it possible to upgrade it directly to R80.30 version or is there any upgrade path we need to follow? Also please let me know what all the things we need to consider for this upgrade. We have 4 physical firewall and 2 virtual systems.
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Sanjay S
If you want to benefit of the new XFS file system you will have to do fresh installation. In all other cases upgrade is recommended.
With CPUSE upgrade you get your configuration migrated automatically to the new version and automatic snapshot for rollback.
Hi Sanjay!
My recommendation is upgrade to R80.40. You can upgrade directly from R77.30 to R80.30 (or .40) using CPUSE. When upgrading VSX the first step is to run vsx_util upgrade on the management server.
Make sure to follow all the steps in the Installation and Upgrade Guide for the relevant version.
If you want to benefit of the new XFS file system you will have to do fresh installation. In all other cases upgrade is recommended.
With CPUSE upgrade you get your configuration migrated automatically to the new version and automatic snapshot for rollback.
Take a look at this discussion for upgrade vs. Fresh installation discussion:
https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/General-Management-Topics/Clean-install-vs-upgrade/td-p/14701
It's indeed very nice process compared to the old vsx_util reconfigure one. Personally I haven't done any VSX upgrades to R80.40 yet, but it worked fine with earlier R80.x versions as well.
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