Benefits of Active/Active Clustering
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All the firewalls in the cluster are utilized to derive maximum throughput
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Can run in conjunction with Active/Active DPI to perform concurrent processing of IPS, GAV, Anti-Spyware, and Application Firewall services, which are the most processor intensive, on the standby firewall in each HA pair while the active firewall performs other processing
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Load sharing is supported by allowing the assignment of particular traffic flows to each node in the cluster
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All nodes in the cluster provide redundancy for the other nodes, handling traffic as needed if other nodes go down
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Interface redundancy provides backup for traffic flow without requiring failover
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Both Full Mesh and non-Full Mesh deployments are supported