Check Point VPN-1 Virtual Edition

VPN-1 VE Overview:

VPN-1 VE (Virtual Edition) protects your virtual systems with the same best-of-class security that you rely on for your physical network. It enables you to segregate virtual systems from each other as well as from external threats. VPN-1 VE extends your open choice to encompass Check Point appliances and software, "Secured by Check Point" appliances, and virtual systems - all managed by a single interface to ensure consistent, efficient security management.

Features and Benefits:

Benefits:

• Protect Virtual Applications with Best-of-Class Security
• Simplifies virtual security provisioning
• Enables unified management of physical and virtual environment

Features:

Protect Virtual Applications with Best-of-Class Security
VPN-1 VE enables you to protect virtual applications on a VMware ESX server with the same best-of-class protection you use to protect your physical network. VPN-1 VE enables you to separate virtual applications, protecting them from each other as well as external threats. You can base your security solution – high performance or unified threat management – on the specific needs of your virtual environment.

Central, Unified Management
VPN-1 VE is managed from the same SmartCenter or Provider-1 management server as all other VPN-1 gateways and Check Point appliances. This enables you to ensure consistent security at all gateways and to minimize the expense of separate management consoles.

High Performance
VPN-1 VE delivers over 1 Gbps throughput, providing a high performance platform for your virtualized environments and ensuring access to mission critical applications.

Pre-configured for Quick Deployment
Because VPN-1 VE keeps traffic within the virtual appliance server, it eliminates the complication of adding security appliances and switches to secure your virtual environment. The VPN-1 VE installs with such options as memory allocation and core allocation pre-set, enabling you to get the system secure as quick as possible. You may also customize all settings – including network interfaces and others – to protect your particular environment.

Flexible Deployment Scenarios
VPN-1 VE is designed to protect virtual environments from attack. With the flexibility of the Check Point solutions, you gain options beyond that.

• Disaster Recovery: When a site is unavailable, you can provision security services as well as other application at another location to get information available quickly.
• Office in a Box: You can place all necessary applications for a small office– such as email or Web servers – in a virtual environment alongside your VPN-1 gateway to provide a single, secure server that provides all functionality needed by the remote office.
• Virtualized Management: The VPN-1 VE also allows you to place the SmartCenter management server within an ESX virtual environment to consolidate applications.

Certified by VMware for VMware ESX
Certified by VMware for use on the ESX Server, VPN-1 VE provides you with a proven platform for protecting your ESX virtual environments. With the certification, you gain the confidence of securing your mission-critical applications in a market-leading virtual environment.

Specifications:

Supported VMware Servers
VMware ESX Server versions: 3.0.2, 3.5, or ESXi 3.5.

Supported Check Point Solutions
VPN-1 Power NGX R65
VPN-1 UTM NGX R65
VPN-1 UTM Power NGX R65
SmartCenter NGX R65
ClusterXL NGX R65

Minimum Requirements
The VPN-1 Virtual Machine must have the following allocations at minimum:

• Allocated Memory: 512 MB
• Disk Space: 12 G