Is there any kind of "rule of thumb" out there for sizing a management server. (e.g. # of policy rules + # of NAT rules + # of objects = Sun X) I'm sure there's nothing that magical, but I need something to start with.
If you have a standard company server standard use that.
I use a DL380 G3 for the primary and a pentium 3 desktop with 256 meg of ram for the secondary so as you can see type of box isnt too important.
I think standard mem for checkpoint vpn1 / firewall1 is 256meg so thats a giude to memory. Suppose it also depends on platform as you will prob get better performance from secure platform than microsoft.
I would definitely stay away from Microsoft Windows and Sun Platforms if I were you. I run Provider-1 on Secureplatform (provider is a super Management Server managing multiple firewalls). The box that P-1 is running on is Pentium III 500Mhz machine with 1GB of RAM and it rocks. If you want something more reliable instead of a "white" box, I suggest you go with either Dell or HP. I really like Secureplatform. You can even run the management server on a Pentium 200Mhz machine with 128MB of RAM, with Secureplatform that is. I don't think you can do that with either winblows or Solaris, can you?
