
Licensing
Licensing for the Active/Active Clustering (including Stateful High Availability) and BGP Advanced Routing features is included with the following SonicWALL NSA
SonicWALL NSA E8500
SonicWALL NSA E7500
SonicWALL NSA E6500
SonicWALL NSA E5500
To activate these licenses, register each appliance on MySonicWALL. Even when deployed in a High Availability pair, each unit must be individually registered to activate the licenses.
When available, a SonicOS Expanded License can be purchased for the following SonicWALL appliances to activate the BGP Advanced Routing feature:
SonicWALL NSA 5000
SonicWALL NSA 4500
SonicWALL NSA 3500
SonicWALL NSA 2400
SonicWALL NSA 240
SonicWALL TZ 210 / 210
SonicWALL TZ 200 / 200
Note: Active/Active Clustering is supported only on SonicWALL NSA
No free trial is available for the BGP Advanced Routing feature.
Key Features
The following key features are available in SonicOS 5.6.5.1:
Active/Active Clustering High Availability Active/Active Clustering is the most recent addition to the High Availability feature set in SonicOS. A typical Active/Active Clustering deployment includes four firewalls of the same SonicWALL model configured as two Cluster Nodes, where each node consists of one Stateful High Availability pair. For larger deployments, the cluster can include eight firewalls, configured as four Cluster Nodes.
With Active/Active Clustering, you can assign certain traffic flows to each node in the cluster, providing load sharing in addition to redundancy, and supporting a much higher throughput without a single point of failure. Earlier High Availability features, such as Stateful Synchronization and Active/Active DPI (previously called Active/Active UTM), continue to be supported and are recommended for use in conjunction with Active/Active Clustering.
Active/Active Clustering is supported only on SonicWALL NSA
BGP Advanced Routing Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) advanced routing is a
BGP Advanced Routing is available on all SonicWALL NSA and TZ appliances supported in SonicOS 5.6.5.1.
SonicOS Enhanced 5.6.5.1 Release Notes
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