Jul 17, 2016 Reconfigure VSX Cluster member R77.20 / R77.30. VSX Cluster Full Connectivity Upgrade Part 3. R80.10 Best Practices.
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My team manages a dozen Check Point firewall HA clusters (plus several SMS and dedicated logging servers) on R77.30 and we are in the process of upgrading all of them to R80. This has been quite an ordeal over the past couple months. We have several cases open with TAC regarding database conversion issues for the SMS, despite passing the pre-upgrade verifier. Our initial success rate as been 20% so far. TAC and R&D have told me that the in-place upgrade from R77.30 'isn't recommended' and they have seen large volumes of problems related to it. Their recommendation has been to do an advanced upgrade (migrate export, import on new R80 SMS). We have had limited success using either method. Our tickets are currently sitting with R&D as they're looking into potential bugs.
So, how are your R80 migrations going?
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