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HA configure on new SG550s

ErikWaibel

Hi all.

Sorry if this is a rookie question - I am coming from the software appliance realm and am new to the actual hardware appliances.  We just bought two SG550s to replace old Dell 2950s we were running in Hot standby (active/passive).  I have the master 550 all up and running with my backup config imported and running - all is well.  I thought all i had to do was turn HA to "automatic" and being up the second one with NICs connected (after I updated the 2nd to the same version as the first and did a "factory reset" on it)

The documentation explains that if you have units with a FIXED eth3 to use that port.  well the 550s have modular ethernet ports and I am using eth3 for external WAN.  I want to use eth9 as my sync port and I can set it on the master.  Do I need to do a minimal setup on the second (slave) and choose the eth9 for sync and put that machine in automatic too?  Or do I have to set it up and just do a manual setup of HA?

 



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    Not sure about the eth9 port. I just made a HA system on 2 new SG330's. Updatet both to same UTM version and loaded backup in the first node so it is up-and-running.

    I did not do any reconfiguration on the 2nd node than to just connect its eth3 port to Node1's eth3 port and it automatically started to sync. Do make sure however to have the first node with a higher uptime than the second node, because unit with longest uptime will become master. If both have the exact same uptime, master will be selected based on MAC-address.

    In your case you may have to adjust the eth port used on your Node2 and then just connect it to Node1 on eth9.

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    Not sure about the eth9 port. I just made a HA system on 2 new SG330's. Updatet both to same UTM version and loaded backup in the first node so it is up-and-running.

    I did not do any reconfiguration on the 2nd node than to just connect its eth3 port to Node1's eth3 port and it automatically started to sync. Do make sure however to have the first node with a higher uptime than the second node, because unit with longest uptime will become master. If both have the exact same uptime, master will be selected based on MAC-address.

    In your case you may have to adjust the eth port used on your Node2 and then just connect it to Node1 on eth9.

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