Technical data
Link Aggregation Overview ............................................................................... 130
Link Aggregation Terminology ..................................................................... 130
How Link Aggregation Works ....................................................................... 131
High Availability Overview ............................................................................ 131
Load Sharing Overview ................................................................................ 132
Bond Failover .............................................................................................. 132
Failover Support for VLANs ......................................................................... 133
Bond Interface & Interface Limitations ......................................................... 133
Configuring Link Aggregation for High Availability ............................................ 134
Creating a New Deployment ........................................................................ 134
Upgrading an Existing Deployment .............................................................. 135
Link Aggregation - Load Sharing Mode............................................................. 137
Creating a Bond in a New Deployment ........................................................ 138
Upgrading an Existing Deployment .............................................................. 141
Configuring Cisco Switches for Load Sharing .............................................. 145
Changing the Bond Interface Mode .................................................................. 145
Enslaving Interfaces to a Bond ......................................................................... 145
Detaching Interfaces from a Bond .................................................................... 146
Deleting a Bond ................................................................................................ 146
Removing a Bond Interface from Virtual devices .......................................... 147
Removing a Bond Interface From a VSX Object .......................................... 147
Removing a Bond Interface from a VSX Gateway or Cluster Member ......... 147
Reconfiguring Interface Connections ........................................................... 147
Changing an Existing Interface to a Bond ......................................................... 148
Troubleshooting Bonded Interfaces .................................................................. 148
Troubleshooting Workflow ........................................................................... 148
Optimizing VSX ................................................................................................... 150
VSX Resource Control ..................................................................................... 150
Overview ...................................................................................................... 150
Resource Control System Components ....................................................... 150
Virtual System Priorities ............................................................................... 151
Working with VSX Resource Control ............................................................ 151
QoS Enforcement ............................................................................................. 153
Overview ...................................................................................................... 153
Architecture ................................................................................................. 154
QoS Features .............................................................................................. 155
QoS Management ........................................................................................ 155
QoS Configuration ....................................................................................... 156
Hardware Health Monitoring .............................................................................. 161
Introduction to Hardware Health Monitoring ...................................................... 161
RAID Monitoring with SNMP ............................................................................. 162
Example RAID Monitoring OIDs ................................................................... 163
Sensors Monitoring with SNMP on VSX-1 Appliances ...................................... 163
Example Sensors Monitoring OIDs .............................................................. 164
Sensors Monitoring with SNMP on Power-1 and UTM-1 Appliances ............ 164
Deploying VSX .................................................................................................... 166
Introduction ...................................................................................................... 166
Internal Network Deployment Strategies ........................................................... 166
Security Gateway Deployment on a Physical Network ................................. 166
VSX Virtual System Deployment Strategies ................................................. 167
Physical Internal Interface for Each Virtual System ...................................... 167
Virtual Systems with Internal VLAN Interfaces ............................................. 167
Internal Virtual Router with Source-Based Routing ...................................... 168
Virtual Systems in the Bridge Mode ............................................................. 169
Cluster Deployments.................................................................................... 169
Organizational Deployment Strategies.............................................................. 172
Enterprise Deployments ............................................................................... 172
Managed Service Providers Using Multi-Domain Security Management ...... 174
Data Centers ............................................................................................... 176