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orion_son30
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Upgrade Recommendation

Hi,

We've an end customer with 1 Management, 1 cluster of 5400 and 1 cluster of 3100. All of these nodes are running R80.30 and we're planning an upgrade in the next few days.

For the management we'lll be using the widely recommended version R81.10, but we're not sure about the version to use on both of the gateways clusters. Do you think that we should have an approach more cautious and use R80.40, or it is fine to go with R81.10 on the gateways?

I'm a little bit worried with the hardware resources of the gateways to run R81.10. Any thought on this would be great.

Thanks in advance.

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Chris_Atkinson
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Employee

R81.10 is proving to be a good release. Typically those that are most conservative are those running VSX but with a growing need for VTI (route based VPN support) I have VSX customers on R81 today.

With that said let's focus on your situation here. What are the enabled_blades on each cluster, do all gateways have only the default 8GB RAM?

CCSM R77/R80/ELITE
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orion_son30
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Hi Chris,

The 5400 cluster has enabled the following blades: Firewall, Site-to-Site VPN, Desktop Security, Mobile Access, App Control, URL Filtering, Identity Awareness, Monitoring, IPS, Anti-Bot e Anti-Virus.

On the 3100 cluster we'e enabled: Firewall Site-to-site VPN, App Control, URL Filtering, Identity Awareness and Monitoring.

 

All of the gateways have 8Gb of memory installed.

 

 

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Chris_Atkinson
Employee Employee
Employee

For longevity I'd investigate upgrading the RAM of the 5400 depending on your asset management cycle / strategy.

Cpsizeme / CPview metrics will help determine how critical this is as relevant to any future upgrades.

Anecdotally though R80.40 has been better at memory management than prior releases.

CCSM R77/R80/ELITE
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the_rock
Legend
Legend

Personally, as much as I love R81.10 management, I would not do that version on firewalls yet. I know its recommended version now, but I would give it some time for the firewalls. I do have it in the lab, if there is anything you are interested in testing beforehand.

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Dorit_Dor
Employee
Employee

Since announced recommended, now the number of GW upgrades to R81.10 is higher than the upgrade to R80.40 (but still R80.40 have obviously by far more GW install base). I welcome customers to try it as it has quality improvements. 

Also note that for Maestro and SP users, R81.10 was recommended for a while as its fully integrated with main train (and major jump in quality from the R80.20SP and R80.30SP) 

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