01-03-2019 01:45 AM - edited 01-03-2019 01:47 AM
Hi All,
We currently have one customer with two clusters running VM-300, but facing dataplane CPU utilization. Support team has upgraded the VMs to 6xCPU (without knowing that VM-300 only support up to 4).
Right now VMs are with 6 CPUs allocated and we are planning to upgrade the vm capacity to VM-500. But I was wondering how the current CPUs will re-assigned? Any document I have found so far is only mentioning support for 4 and 8 CPUs and how they will be distributed between management and dataplan...
I am wondering what will happen?
- Will the VMs be able to boot and reach operational state?
- Or just the CPU distribution will still be 4 management and 2 dataplane?
I am pretty sure that we eventually will need to upgrade to 8 CPUs, but I want to know if we can leave the firewall running with VM-500 and 6 CPUs assigned (while planning next maintenance to increase the cpus) or we must do both (upgrade the license and increase the CPUs to 8 per VM).
Thank you in advance!
01-03-2019 04:36 AM
IMHO the VM500 would function but only on 4 cores
01-03-2019 01:56 AM
you'll need to upgrade to 8 CPU as the vm500 won't support 6 (and so only use 4)
01-03-2019 02:43 AM - edited 01-03-2019 02:45 AM
Thank you for the prompt feedback @reaper!
My concern is that we have approved plan to upgrade the VM capacity only - which shouldn't require reboot. While CPU upgrade requires VM shutdown.
So I am wondering if we can leave the CPU upgrade for another day and leave the firewall running with VM-500 and 6 CPUs - will the firewall still function properly?
We will definately upgrade to 8 CPU, because we need to assign additional CPUs to the dataplane (as the current 2 are overloaded). But cpu upgrade would probably be in different day, if possible.
01-03-2019 04:36 AM
IMHO the VM500 would function but only on 4 cores
04-01-2020 09:02 PM
Hi,
We are performing the same upgrade, just wonder how this went, did the CPU's auto allocate after assigning more and booting post VM-500 license ? We will upgrade to 8vCPU and 16GB of ram. From 4vCPU and 6.5GB ram.
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