Requirements for hardware high availability

Restrictions for hardware high availability

  • All Cloud-Delivered Firewall Management Center hardware supports high availability. Ensure that both peers are the same model.

  • The peers may be physically and geographically separated from each other in different data centers.

  • The bandwidth requirement for high availability configuration depends on various factors such as the size of the network, the number of managed devices, the volume of events and logs, and the size and frequency of configuration updates.

  • For a typical Cloud-Delivered Firewall Management Center high availability deployment, in case of high latency networks of close to 100 ms, a minimum of 5 Mbps network bandwidth between the peers is recommended.

  • Ensure that both Cloud-Delivered Firewall Management Centers have unique UUIDs. To check the UUID, review this file:/etc/sf/ims.conf.

  • Do not restore a backup of the primary peer to the secondary.

These requirements apply to all Cloud-Delivered Firewall Management Center hardware deployments configured for high availability.

Ensuring hardware compatibility, adequate bandwidth, and proper configuration versioning helps maintain reliable high availability and prevents synchronization issues.

See also License requirements for Cloud-Delivered Firewall Management Center high availability configurations for additional licensing requirements.