{"id":5596,"date":"2022-11-11T09:56:07","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T09:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/?p=5596"},"modified":"2022-11-11T14:10:10","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T14:10:10","slug":"sophos-firewall-v19-5-high-availability-enhancements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/it-it\/2022\/11\/products\/sophos-firewall-v19-5-high-availability-enhancements\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophos Firewall v19.5 – High Availability Enhancements"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this\u00a0ongoing series<\/a>\u00a0of articles about the great new features in SFOS v19.5, we\u2019ve covered new search capabilities<\/a>,\u00a0SD-WAN Load Balancing<\/a>,\u00a0Xstream TLS FastPath<\/a>,\u00a0Azure AD integration<\/a>, and now this week, high availability enhancements.<\/p>\n

Sophos Firewall High Availability<\/h2>\n

Sophos Firewall supports high availability (HA) clustering of two appliances in active-active or active-passive operation for higher performance and redundancy.\u00a0 SFOS v18 introduced a major new enhancement to high availability with QuickHA setup that makes configuration almost a plug-and-play exercise.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re not familiar with the various HA modes<\/a> or how to use QuickHA<\/a>, check out the great two-part video series<\/a> on these topics.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s New with High Availability in v19.5<\/h2>\n

Making Management Easier:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Several user interface enhancements improve the status and visibility of your high-availability cluster with a new control center widget, enhanced status panel, and new node names for easy device identification.<\/p>\n

Node Names help identify the particular device in the cluster and are shown on the browser tab, HA status page, HA logs, command line interface, and Control Center to make it very easy to know which device you are currently interacting with.<\/p>\n

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The new HA status panel and widget (available at the top of every screen) make management easier.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Redundant HA Links<\/strong><\/p>\n

High Availability pairs can now be synchronized with redundant HA links to add resiliency and prevent split- brain conditioning. Up to 4 links can be provisioned for HA pairs using physical, LAG, VLAN or unbound interfaces. Conveniently, LAG configuration happens automatically behind the scenes in QuickHA mode.<\/p>\n

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You can now use multiple HA links for redundancy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Check out this video for a full demonstration of all the great new HA enhancements in SFOS v19.5:<\/p>\n