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HA solutions

A common solution to the high availability problem is to eliminate the security gateway as single point of failure by introducing redundancy. With two or more redundant security gateways, if one fails, the remaining one or more gateways keep the traffic flowing. FortiOS provides six redundancy solutions: industry standard VRRP as well as five proprietary solutions: FortiGate Cluster Protocol (FGCP) high availability, FortiGate Session Life Support Protocol (FGSP) high availability, Session-Aware Load Balancing Clustering (SLBC), Enhanced Load Balanced Clustering (ELBC) and Content Clustering.

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You can combine more than one high availability solution into a single configuration. A common reason for doing this could be to add VRRP to an FGCP or FGSP configuration.

A strong and flexible High availability solution is required for many mission-critical firewall and security profile applications. Each FortiOS high availability solution can be fine tuned to fit into many different network scenarios.

HA solutions

A common solution to the high availability problem is to eliminate the security gateway as single point of failure by introducing redundancy. With two or more redundant security gateways, if one fails, the remaining one or more gateways keep the traffic flowing. FortiOS provides six redundancy solutions: industry standard VRRP as well as five proprietary solutions: FortiGate Cluster Protocol (FGCP) high availability, FortiGate Session Life Support Protocol (FGSP) high availability, Session-Aware Load Balancing Clustering (SLBC), Enhanced Load Balanced Clustering (ELBC) and Content Clustering.

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You can combine more than one high availability solution into a single configuration. A common reason for doing this could be to add VRRP to an FGCP or FGSP configuration.

A strong and flexible High availability solution is required for many mission-critical firewall and security profile applications. Each FortiOS high availability solution can be fine tuned to fit into many different network scenarios.