Migrating SmartCentre to virtual environment

[fizzkakz]

Hi all,

I am currently working on a DR solution for an environment I have just inherited. I am considering migrating the Smartcentre server to a VM environment in the interest of being able to rebuild the server from an image very quickly and would (hopefully) avoid sourcing replacement hardware, installing the software and licensing it, etc.

Has anyone tried a similar solution?

Can anyone foresee any potential licensing issues? The server will be running on the same IPs.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Cheers!

[gavvys]

Hi
Well I havn't created the virtual Smartcenter.I took two hard disks and created the copy of the server for DR and keep updating the checkpoint settings of both the harddisks with the help of Checkpoint Backup.So when I faced some problem regarding the policy I just boot the machine from another harddisk and again puched the policy and my Firewall again came up, actually the problem that came to me that, the cehckpoint database got corrupted in one harddisk and then I took the backup from another harddisk and both were again working fine.

I hope this will help you.

Regards
Ranjit

[fizzkakz]

That certainly gives me enough proof of concept to at least give it a try. Thanks :)

[mcnallym]

Just be aware that Check Point don't support SMARTCenter in a production environment using virtualization.

I can say it does work just that it isn't supported. I even had a HA mgmt system going across two VM Servers on physically different boxes.