Upgrade from R77.30 to R80.10

[Kirupa_Shankar_]

Hi All,

We are planning to upgrade our checkpoint environment from R77.30 to R80.10 and would like to hear opinions from experts in this community. Below are our environments.

2 MDS (Smart1 3050) in HA pair with 3 CMA's and each has around 10+ clusters.

1 MLM (Smart1 3050) 

We prefer upgrading using CPUSE. Can anyone guide on the safest process to have a smooth migration of the above devices ? 

Thanks in advance and appreciate your time.

[Kaspars_Zibarts]

It's fully supported according to R80.10 release notes. Cpuse should work as well although many here prefer the clean start with upgrade export / import option. Look at the advanced upgrade in R80.10 upgrade guide.

I personally would recommend RAM upgrade if you have default 32GB. But it should work, all depends on your object count on rulebase size.

[Danny]

I (and many others I spoke with) prefer a fresh installation of R80.20 instead of CPUSE. This is a little more work to import the configurtion back onto the freshly installed appliances but it's definately worth it. Espcially in more complex environments like yours. The workflow is fairly simple > export config > fresh install > import config > test

[Kaspars_Zibarts]

BTW by upgrading to R80.20 with fresh install you will get faster file system on your management

[PhoneBoy]

The other benefit to this approach is you can test your upgrade in a VM or similar before you do it.

This will allow you to identify potential issues that might not be caught in the upgrade verifier.

[PhoneBoy]

See also: Migrate to R80.20 TechTalk‌