VSX supported features

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Solution ID	sk79700
Technical Level
Product	VSX, Enterprise Appliances, Data Center Security Appliances
Version	R75.40VS, R76, R77, R77.10, R77.20, R77.30, R80.10, R80.20, R80.30, R80.40
OS	Gaia, Crossbeam XOS
Platform / Model	2000, 3000, 4000, 5000, 12000, 13000, 15000, 21000, 23000, Power-1, VSX-1, UTM-1, Intel/PC, IP1280, IP2450, X-Series, 41000, 44000, 61000, 64000
Date Created	19-Jul-2012
Last Modified	07-Jul-2020

Cause

https://sc1.checkpoint.com/documents/R80.30/WebAdminGuides/EN/CP_R80.30_VSX_AdminGuide/html_frameset.htm

Solution

VSX mode on Security Gateways is supported in R75.40VS and higher only on these Operating Systems (refer to Release Notes - R75.40VS, R76, R77 - chapter "Operating System Requirements"):

Check Point Gaia OS
X-Series XOS

The following table lists blades / features that are supported on Gaia OS and on X-Series XOS (read the notes under the table).

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Blade / Feature	R75.40VS Gaia	R76 ⁽⁹⁾ Gaia	R76SP.X Gaia	R77 Gaia	R77.10 Gaia	R77.20 Gaia	R77.30 Gaia	R80.10 Gaia	R80.20 / R80.30 / R80.40 Gaia
Software Blades
Firewall	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
IPS Blade	Yes ⁽²⁾	Yes ⁽²⁾	Yes ⁽²⁾	Yes ⁽²⁾	Yes ⁽²⁾	Yes ⁽²⁾	Yes ⁽²⁾	Yes ⁽²⁾	Yes ⁽²⁾
IPSec VPN Blade	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Anti-Bot Blade	Yes ^{(1 , 2)}	Yes ^{(1 , 2)}	Yes ⁽²⁾	Yes ⁽²⁾	Yes ⁽²⁾	Yes ⁽²⁾	Yes ⁽²⁾	Yes ⁽²⁾	Yes ⁽²⁾
Anti-Virus Blade	Yes ^{(1 , 2)}	Yes ^{(1 , 2)}	Yes ⁽²⁾	Yes ⁽²⁾	Yes ⁽²⁾	Yes ⁽²⁾	Yes ⁽²⁾	Yes ⁽²⁾	Yes ⁽²⁾
Traditional Anti-Virus Blade	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Threat Emulation Blade	No	No	Yes ^{(2 , 17)}	No	No	Yes ⁽²⁾	Yes ⁽²⁾	Yes ⁽²⁾	Yes ⁽²⁾
Threat Extraction Blade (sk101553)	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Anti-Spam and Email Security Blade	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Blade	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Application Control Blade	Yes ⁽¹⁰⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁰⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁰⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁰⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁰⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁰⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁰⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁰⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁰⁾
URL Filtering Blade	Yes ⁽¹⁰⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁰⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁰⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁰⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁰⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁰⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁰⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁰⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁰⁾
Content Awareness	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
Legacy URL Filtering Blade	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Identity Awareness Blade	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Monitoring Blade	Yes ⁽¹⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁾		Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Mobile Access Blade	Supported partially ^{(1 , 3)}	Supported partially ^{(1 , 3)}	No	Supported partially ^{(1 , 3)}	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
QoS, Light Weight (CPQOS) ⁽¹¹⁾ (VSX has native QoS support - it does not support the QoS Blade (FloodGate-1))	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Compliance Blade	No	No	No	No	No	Yes ⁽¹⁶⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁶⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁶⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁶⁾
All Management Blades	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Global Features
Network Address Translation (NAT)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
SecureXL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
CoreXL	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Dynamic Routing	Yes ⁽⁴⁾	Yes ⁽⁴⁾	Yes	Yes ⁽⁴⁾	Yes ⁽⁴⁾	Yes ⁽⁴⁾	Yes ⁽⁴⁾	Yes ⁽⁴⁾	Yes ⁽⁴⁾
Source Based Routing on Virtual Router	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Policy Based Routing (PBR) on Virtual Router	Yes ⁽¹⁴⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁴⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁴⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁴⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁴⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁴⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁴⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁴⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁴⁾
SNMP Per Virtual System using SNMPv3	Yes ⁽¹⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁾	Yes	Yes ⁽¹⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁾
DHCP Client	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
DHCP Relay	Yes	Yes ⁽¹⁾	Yes	Yes ⁽¹⁾	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
DHCP Server	Yes ^{(1 , 5)}	Yes ^{(1 , 5)}	Yes ⁽⁵⁾	Yes ^{(1 , 5)}	Yes ^{(1 , 5)}	Yes ^{(1 , 5)}	Yes ^{(1 , 5)}	Yes ^{(1 , 5)}	Yes ^{(1 , 5)}
NTP Client	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
NTP Server	No ⁽¹²⁾	No ⁽¹²⁾	No ⁽¹²⁾	No ⁽¹²⁾	No ⁽¹²⁾	No ⁽¹²⁾	No ⁽¹²⁾	No ⁽¹²⁾	No ⁽¹²⁾
Security Servers	Yes ⁽¹⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁾	Yes	Yes ⁽¹⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁾
Jumbo Frames	Yes ⁽¹⁵⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁵⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁵⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁵⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁵⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁵⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁵⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁵⁾	Yes ⁽¹⁵⁾
Rule Hit Count	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
UserCheck (supported for Application Control / URL Filtering / Identity Awareness blades)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Gaia Portal	Yes ^{(1 , 6)}	Yes ^{(1 , 6)}	No	Yes ^{(1 , 6)}	Yes ^{(1 , 6)}	Yes ^{(1 , 6)}	Yes ^{(1 , 6)}	Yes ^{(1 , 6)}	Yes ^{(1 , 6)}
Gaia OS "Cloning Groups"	No ⁽¹³⁾	No ⁽¹³⁾	No ⁽¹³⁾	No ⁽¹³⁾	No ⁽¹³⁾	No ⁽¹³⁾	No ⁽¹³⁾	No ⁽¹³⁾	No ⁽¹³⁾
StandAlone Configuration	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
IPv6	No	Yes ⁽⁷⁾	Yes ⁽⁷⁾	Yes ⁽⁷⁾	Yes ⁽⁷⁾	Yes ⁽⁷⁾	Yes ⁽⁷⁾	Yes ⁽⁷⁾	Yes ⁽⁷⁾
VRRP	No ⁽⁸⁾	No ⁽⁸⁾	No ⁽⁸⁾	No ⁽⁸⁾	No ⁽⁸⁾	No ⁽⁸⁾	No ⁽⁸⁾	No ⁽⁸⁾	No ⁽⁸⁾
VPN Link Selection	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
VPN VTI	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Suspicious Activity Monitoring (SAM) Rules	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Malicious Activity Detection (MAD)	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Connect Control	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
ISP Redundancy	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
SmartUpdate	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
SmartProvisioning / SmartLSM	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
SmartWorkflow on Security Management Server / Multi-Domain Security Management Server	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Database Revision Control on Security Management Server / Multi-Domain Security Management Server (sk65420)	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Multi Bridge (support for multiple bridge interfaces on a Virtual System in Bridge Mode)	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes ⁽¹¹⁾	Yes ⁽¹¹⁾	Yes ⁽¹¹⁾
Anti-Virus archive scanning	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Threat Emulation archive scanning	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) support for Threat Emulation	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes
SecureXL Penalty Box	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
Resource Control
CPU monitoring per Virtual System	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Memory monitoring per Virtual System	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
CPU enforcement per Virtual System (a.k.a. Resource Control Enforcer in VSX R6x)	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Memory enforcement per Virtual System (a.k.a. Resource Control Enforcer in VSX R6x)	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Virtual System in Bridge Mode
Refer to sk101371 - Bridge Mode on Gaia OS and SecurePlatform OS.
Additional Features
Merging VSX objects using cp_merge utility (sk33751)	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Alias / Secondary IP address	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
ECMP (Static Routes)	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Dynamic Dispatcher	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes

Notes:

This blade / feature is not supported on X-Series XOS.
Refer to sk106496 - Software Blades updates - FAQ.
Mobile Access Blade is supported partially.
Refer to:
- Release Notes (R75.40VS, R76, R77) - "Security Gateway Software Blades"
- R77 versions Mobile Access Administration Guide
- sk67820 - Check Point Remote Access Solutions
X-Series XOS uses its own routing suite (Gaia OS uses RouteD daemon).
DHCP Server is supported only for the VSX Gateway itself - in the context of VS0.
Gaia Portal is supported only to run the 'First Time Configuration Wizard'.
IPv6 is supported with the following limitations:
- Pure IPv6 is not supported (must have IPv4 addresses assigned) - applies only to Cluster.
- IPv6 is not supported on Virtual Router.
VRRP cluster in VSX mode is supported only on X-Series XOS.
For information about 60000 / 40000 Security Systems, refer to the corresponding Release Notes (41000, 44000, 61000, 64000) - chapter "System Requirements" - section "Gateway Requirements" - subsection "Supported Software Blades".
Refer to sk106496 - Software Blades updates - FAQ and to R77 versions VSX Administration Guide.
Refer to VSX Administration Guide (R77.X, , R80.10).
Refer to sk32027 - NTP Server support on Gaia and SecurePlatform OS.
Refer to sk97494 - Gaia "Cloning Groups" are not supported on Security Gateway in VSX mode.
Refer to sk100500 - Policy-Based Routing (PBR) on Gaia OS.
Refer to sk110351 - Traffic latency on VSX Gateway if MTU larger than 4096 (Jumbo Frames) is configured on an interface.
Since "Compliance" blade is a Management blade, it cannot be activated in VSX Gateway / VSX Cluster object.
"Compliance" blade supports VSX Gateways / VSX Clusters running R77.20 and higher.
By design, the "Security Best Practices" for "Gaia OS" are not checked on VSX Gateways / VSX Clusters.
Refer to sk92861 - ATRG: Compliance Blade.
This blade is supported only by R76SP.40 and higher.
Follow the instructions in sk111405 - 60000 / 40000 Appliances - How to enable Threat Emulation blade on R76SP.40 and R76SP.50.

Related documentation:

Release Notes (R75.40VS, R76, R76SP, R76SP.10, R76SP.10_VSLS, R76SP.20, R76SP.30, R76SP.40, R76SP.50, R77, R77.10, R77.20, R77.30, R80.10 R80.20 R80.30 R80.40)
VSX Administration Guide (R75.40VS, R76, R77.X, R80.10 R80.20 R80.30)

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