SUB: FTP 5,000
I ran 5,000 simultaneous FTP transfers to test connectivity and failover. The X40 displays traffic on a monitoring interface, so I could see which of the two firewalls was inspecting my IP traffic. I pulled the associated blade out of the chassis and watched it fail over to the secondary with only a short pause. The standby blade booted, and within a few minutes I had two firewalls. I questioned the delay and discovered that when a blade is repurposed or removed from standby mode, it has to load a new operating system image.
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Good
Fully redundant
Simple-to-deploy HA/LB security application Easy to configure Bad
New application blades don't load instantaneously
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