Management Server on Nutanix AOS 7 / AHV 10

[nmelay2]

I'm planning to migrate my customer's management server from an old appliance to a VM on his Nutanix AHV environment.
I couldn't find any information regarding support for AOS 7.0 / AHV 10.0 and AOS 7.3 / AHV 10.3.
The HCL only lists Nutanix AOS 6.5 and AOS 6.10, along with some very specific AHV versions.
Then again, I consider the HCL for be mainly firewall focused, and not so much important for running the management software.

Is anyone here running any management server on Nutanix AOS 7.x / AHV 10.x?
Did you use the qcow2 image from sk158292?
Any gotchas?

[the_rock]

I had customer use that image recently and worked fine.

Andy

[nmelay2]

Thanks for your confirmation Andy.

Do you remember which kind of VM environment they were using?

[the_rock]

AOS 7

[nmelay2]

Yet another question.
Was running the management on a non officially supported environment a concern for them?
Or did it just go unnoticed?

[the_rock]

Not really a concern. I had known these guys for a long time and they totally get when something is unsupported and were okay with it. Its only for 2 small branch gateways (separate mgmt server), so they just ring me if they have an issue.

Andy

[G_W_Albrecht]

This will be an issue if you need support from CP TAC - they will try to help the customer, but may stop at some point as it is an unsupported environment they can not replicate in the CP Lab...

[Amir_Senn]

We have recommended Nutanix topologies in this SK: https://support.checkpoint.com/results/sk/sk182972

[nmelay2 · Accepted solution]

Thanks Amir.
This SK is about running the firewall software on Nutanix, all will definitely be useful to some.
I'm currently only interested in running the management software though, so my constraints are much more relaxed.

I wish Check Point would clearly differentiate these 2 use cases in the documentation, actually running the firewall software vs the management server.
Performance set aside, running the management server on any hypervisor with support for RHEL7 guests should be officially allowed.
Instead, we're left in some gray area, and this makes some customers nervous.

Now in the good news, the HCL was *just* updated with AOS 7.3 / AHV 10.3.
Looks like either this thread or my request to this customer's Check Point account manager was carefully listened to, nice!
It's still missing AOS 7.0 / AHV 10.0, but I hope it's going to be added as well.

[the_rock]

I agree 100%

[Amir_Senn]

Management is also supported

[the_rock]

Even better!