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Managing VSX Clusters
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Configuring New Cluster Members
To configure members for VSX gateway high availability:
1. During the initial configuration phase (configsys), enter 'y' in response to the "Would you like to
install a Check Point clustering product?" question to enable VSX clustering.
2. Enter 'n' when prompted to enable the Per Virtual System State.
3. Select the "ClusterXL" option.
4. Configure all other properties according to your requirements.
Enabling Per Virtual System High Availability
This section describes the procedures for enabling the Per Virtual System Failover in a high availability
cluster.
Note - The following virtual devices are not supported when the Per
Virtual System state is enabled:
Virtual Routers
Virtual Switches without physical or VLAN interfaces
Configuring New Cluster Members
To configure members for Per Virtual System high availability:
1. During the initial configuration phase, enter 'y' in response to the "Would you like to install a
Check Point clustering product?" question to enable VSX clustering.
2. Enter 'y' when prompted to enable the Per Virtual System State.
3. Enter 'n' when prompted to enable Virtual System Load Sharing.
Configure all other properties according to your requirements.
Configuring Virtual System Load Sharing
This section presents the various procedures for configuring VSLS deployments. You use the vsx_util vsls to
perform various VSLS configurations tasks.
To start vsx_util vsls:
1. From the management server Expert mode, execute vsx_util vsls.
2. Enter the management server IP address.
3. Enter administrator user name and password.
4. Enter the VSX gateway name.
5. From the VSLS menu, choose the desired option.
Enabling VSLS
In order to use VSLS for VSX, you must first enable the Per Virtual System State mode on each cluster
member. You can then create a Load Sharing cluster, either by creating a new cluster object, or by
converting an existing High Availability cluster to Load Sharing mode. After completing this process, you can
modify Virtual Systems as required.
Note - To use the latest Load Sharing features on existing VSLS
clusters, you must upgrade all cluster members to the current version.
You should also apply the hotfix to the management server.