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Carlos_Arzate
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Vsx R80. 30

We have an environment with 2 12000 in Ha and they are VSX. 

It has 5 virtual instances. 

Ii it advisable to instala R80. 30 to improve performance? 

Keep in mind that every 12K has only 4 cores. 

Regards

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Peter_Lyndley
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What version are they currently running ?
What blades are enabled ?
What performance improvements are you looking for ? VPN ? acceleration ?
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HeikoAnkenbrand
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Hi @Carlos_Arzate,

With 4 cores and 5 virtual systems no tuning is possible. It doesn't matter which GAIA version you use.

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G_W_Albrecht
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Legend

Why would you install R80.30 to improve performance ? To improve GW performance i could imagine upgrading to Check Point R80.30 with Gaia 3.10 on systems with more cores available - but the important reason for upgrades is new features (that will in most cases not improve performance)...

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Chris_Atkinson
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Hardware lifecycle asside for the moment...For R80.20 and above  Dynamic Dispatcher for VSX is one relevant performance enhancing feature, 64-bit VS may also be a factor for you depending on the current memory population of the system.

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Alex-
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I installed R80.20 and R80.30 on 12x00 appliances w/ VSX, in totally separate environments and have had production issues with both releases.

I don't want to comment on them out of customer confidentiality and there are still open TAC cases which need to reach a conclusion, but they kept me quite busy. I've installed R80.10/20/30 extensively in other environments (Open servers, 5x00, 15x00, 23x00 systems) and these specific issues only occured with the 12000 series. So if I were you and everything works fine, I'd wait a bit for a few more HF or lifecycle the systems.

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Maarten_Sjouw
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It all depends on the total amount of Virtual Systems (including switches and routers) that you have on the system and the amount of memory available. We had a customer with 40 Virtual Systems (35 switches and 5 FW's) with 12GB of memory where this was not enough to run R80.20 with JHF 87. Just a gentle reminder 12GB is the max memory supported in the 12x00 series.
There is also a memory leak in the R80.20 and R80.30 code which will cause the memory consumption to increase all the time, with a machine that is already tight on memory this will fail in a bit more than a week.
Regards, Maarten
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