Dear All ,
I have a new project coming up which includes 2 Fortigate Firewalls and 2 Cisco 4503 switches , all operating in a full mesh mode .
The Fortigate HA cluster would be operating in Active - Active mode
On the Fortigates, I have created a 802.3ad Interface and added Ports 3,4,5,6 to it . The aggregate interface uses a single IP address .
I have attached a network schematic showing how the Firewall - Switch connections are needed to be setup .
The interfaces marked in RED belong to a single Aggregate Interface on the Firewall.
Similarly the interfaces marked with BLUE is a single Aggregate Interface ,but its a logical Interface with multiple Vlans running under it .
The servers would be directly connected to each of the CORE switches .
First of all please tell me if this kind of a setup is possible with Cisco 4503 or not and if its possible then do I need to add all the ports to the same PORT-CHANNEL group or different ones .
Also should the two switches be inter- connected using an ethernet link ?
I am trying to find the right Cisco documentation regarding Virtual CLustering on 4503 but haven't come across the right article yet .
I wonder if I should be searching for Virtual clustering or Stacking because I am pretty new to this kind of a setup .
The basic idea behind this approach is to have a greater bandwidth plus redundant connections .
