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FortiGate Cluster Protocol (FGCP)

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FortiGate Cluster Protocol (FGCP)

FGCP HA provides a solution for two key requirements of critical enterprise networking components: enhanced reliability and increased performance. Enhanced reliability is achieved through device failover protection, link failover protection and remote link failover protection. Also contributing to enhanced reliability is session failover protection for most IPv4 and IPv6 sessions including TCP, UDP, ICMP, IPsec VPN, and NAT sessions. Increased performance is achieved though active-active HA load balancing. Extended FGCP features include full mesh HA and virtual clustering. You can also fine tune the performance of the FGCP to change how a cluster forms and shares information among cluster units and how the cluster responds to failures.

When configured onto your network an FGCP cluster appears to be a single FortiGate operating in NAT or transparent mode and configuration synchronization allows you to configure a cluster in the same way as a standalone FortiGate. If a failover occurs, the cluster recovers quickly and automatically and also sends administrator notifications so that the problem that caused the failure can be corrected and any failed equipment restored.

The FGCP is compatible with most network environments and most networking equipment. While initial configuration is relatively quick and easy, a large number of tools and configuration options are available to fine tune the cluster for most situations.

FortiGate Cluster Protocol (FGCP)

FGCP HA provides a solution for two key requirements of critical enterprise networking components: enhanced reliability and increased performance. Enhanced reliability is achieved through device failover protection, link failover protection and remote link failover protection. Also contributing to enhanced reliability is session failover protection for most IPv4 and IPv6 sessions including TCP, UDP, ICMP, IPsec VPN, and NAT sessions. Increased performance is achieved though active-active HA load balancing. Extended FGCP features include full mesh HA and virtual clustering. You can also fine tune the performance of the FGCP to change how a cluster forms and shares information among cluster units and how the cluster responds to failures.

When configured onto your network an FGCP cluster appears to be a single FortiGate operating in NAT or transparent mode and configuration synchronization allows you to configure a cluster in the same way as a standalone FortiGate. If a failover occurs, the cluster recovers quickly and automatically and also sends administrator notifications so that the problem that caused the failure can be corrected and any failed equipment restored.

The FGCP is compatible with most network environments and most networking equipment. While initial configuration is relatively quick and easy, a large number of tools and configuration options are available to fine tune the cluster for most situations.