Appliance vs. Virtual Machine

[Nbto]

Hi Mates!

I'm wondering whats the benefit of using VS on for example VMWare Esxi instead of normal CheckPoint Appliance. 

When should choose VS over CHP App? For example I would like to setup enviroment with SandBlast which will operate on over 10000 users? 

Best Wishes,

Nbto

[Danny]

Sandblast is Appliance or Cloud or Hybrid, no VS.

[Nbto]

Yes yes, but I mean more MGMT + some GWs on VS and for example SandBlast appliance.
Or even without Sandblast.

[G_W_Albrecht]

Out of my experience, Management works very fine in a VM - backup, clone in ESX, snapshot, backup, migrate export in GAiA, you will never have more promising security tools. What to do about the GW is another topic altogether...

[mdjmcnally]

Sandblast as in the ThreatEmulation/Threat Extraction solution is not supported as Virtual Machine.    I believe for Official Check Point Courses that there are special installs that allow to run a Private Sandblast Machine but certainly not Production before anyone points that out.

No real difference in terms benefits/disadvantage of Physical vs Virtual for Check Point then any other solution.  As long as you can provide the necessary hardware then will run fine as Physical or Virtual.

[Chris_Atkinson]

A further point of clarification VS (VSX) is not supported on VMware.

Virtual Edition (VE) is how we traditionally refer to security gateways deployed as Virtual Machines.

[Otherwise known as VSEC or Cloudguard IaaS.]