Dears,
We would like to know whether it is possible or not to change the size of the partitions on a 16000 and a 23800 appliance.
Both 16000 and 23800 appliances have 2 SDD disks of 480 GB, configured in a RAID1.
When we start the installation of Gaia on the 16000 and 23800 appliances, using the R80.40 ISO, we don't have the option to change the size of the partitions. This is very unfortunate when you would like to use VSX.
When the unattended installation is finished, we see:
- For 23800 appliance: 32 GB for lv_current, 192 for lv_log (file system: xfs).
- For 16000 appliance: 32 GB for lv_current, 292 for lv_log (file system: xfs).
On the 23800 appliances (VSX/VSLS) we found out in 2019 (the hard way) that 32 GB is not enough to host 25 virtual system; we used lvm_manager to extend lv_current to 64 GB; at the moment 58 GB is consumed.
Our plan is to host 15 virtual systems on the 16000 appliances (VSX/VSLS). Because the lv_log is 292 GB in size, we can't expand the lv_current partition to 64 GB (it is expanded to 48 GB). Taking a snapshot is barely possible. Please note that reducing the size of lv_log is not supported.
Questions:
- How does the Gaia installer calculate/determine the size of the partitions?
- Why is the size of lv_log different on 16000/23000 appliances, despite it uses the same size of SSDs (i.e. 480 GB)?
- Is it possible to define the size of the partitions on the 16000/23800 appliances during the installation of GAIA?
- Any other suggestions?
Notes:
- Check Point TAC and RnD suggested to add an additional disk to the system. Not sure how that can be done on the 16000/23800 appliances where you have RAID1 configured and both slots (see picture below, label 10) are occupied with 480 GB SSDs.
- Sizing of appliances was done by Check Point and NTT. They were aware that we had to host 15 virtual systems.
- Attached you'll find the overview of the partition sizes (partitions.txt) for Check Point 16000 and 23800 appliances.
Thank you in advance for your feedback.
Kind regards,
Kris Pellens