Appliance hardware – Updated 25th October 2012

Here is a short list of the hardware used in Check Point appliances. The numbers show SPU and the maximum throughput for firewall, VPN and IPS traffic according to Check Point.

Check Point 2012 Appliance series

Modell	SPU	FW	VPN	IPS	CPU	RAM
21400	2003	50	7	21	2x Intel Xeon E5645 2.40GHz (Six-Core)	6
12600	1861	30	7	17	2x Intel Xeon E5645 2.40GHz (Six-Core)	6
12400	1046	25	3.5	12	Intel Xeon E5645 2.40GHz (Six-Core)	4
12200	738	15	2.5	8	Intel Core i5 750 2.67GHz (QuadCore)	4
4800	623	11	2	6	Intel Core2 Quad CPU Q9400 2.66GHz	4
4600	374	9	1.5	4	Pentium Dual-Core E6500 2.93GHz	4
4400	223	5	1.2	3.5	Intel Celeron Dual-Core E3400 2.6 GHz	4
4200	114	3	0.4	2	Intel Atom D525 1.80GHz Dual-Core	4
2200	114	3	0.4	2	Intel Atom D525 1.80GHz Dual-Core	2

Check Point Smart-1 Appliance series

Modell	CPU	RAM	HDD
Smart-1 5	Intel Celeron M 1.50GHz	2	500 GB
Smart-1 25b	Intel Core2 Duo Processor E7400 2.80 GHz	4	2 TB
Smart-1 50	Intel Xeon E5410 2.33GHz (DualCore)	4	2 TB

The details can be determined from the command line.

For the CPU details use cat /proc/cpuinfo, for the RAM details use cat /proc/meminfo.

If you have more details on appliances, feel free to send them to tobias@lachmann.org

All other values are taken from official Check Point materials.

If you take the appliance hardware together with the throughput stated by Check Point, it might give you an idea how your OpenServer hardware will perform in comparison.

Thanks to all the contributors for their info!

Tobias Lachmann
Refer to http://blog.lachmann.org