You did not read sk60443 correctly: These guidelines apply to all Check Point appliances running on Gaia OS / SecurePlatform OS, as well as Virtual Appliances running vSEC Virtual Edition on Gaia OS
(Note: this article does not apply to vSEC for Amazon Web Services, vSEC for Microsoft Azure, vSEC for Google Cloud Platform, vSEC for VMware NSX, vSEC for VMware vCloud Air, vSEC for Cisco ACI, vSEC for OpenStack).
Historically, this had never been supported on OpenServer at all, only on (also virtual) appliances.
But i would put my answer like this: On VMWare, Full HA Cluster does make no sense at all !
- Gateway clustering = Cluster XL HA should be used
- SMS on VM is easily cloned, different ways of backup are possible, so we do not need Management HA in most cases we could think of
- Full HA is the solution with many features for less money very often giving big trouble 😞
- So out of long experience, i always have suggested to keep the hands from fool management haha...
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