Hi @Rabin
That was not clear for me, that you have two managements. In this case I understand you. As you mentioned, one Management would be enough is a far future, and budget-proof. 🙂
I would addressed two questions here:
Cluster and Active Active setup:
Az I think you are in the plannig phase. Please read the limitations here.
Two Managament into one:
From what you have written, this tool would be useful for you. This helps you in the hardest part -> migrating the policy.
https://support.checkpoint.com/results/sk/sk180923
About the Smart-1 600S and the VM license
Hard to compare the physical appliance with the VM, because both have advantages and disadvantages too.
The largest difference is for me:
The Smart-1 has a hard limit in performace, and yo can't extend it.
Datasheet here
The VM does not have such kind of limit, because the resources of the host are always extendable. An another feature of the VM, is the snapshot. By upgrades it is a huge feature, and extend the safety.
These are my opinions, from the small amount of information that I have.
I hope this helps you to find the right way.
I have installation with Smart-1 and VM too. Somewhere was requirement that, the Management must be a physical appliance in HA...
Akos
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