Ironport S380 - Port Channel for P1/P2 - & - Bypass Traffic Mechanism

[milin160791]

Dear Team,

One of my customer has purchased WSA S380.

1. He has a requirement to bundle P1/P2 Ports and create a port-channel in a switch. Is it Possible ?  If No, then what can be the Solution ?

2.  Also, Is it possible to detect failover, means if our WSA will go down then will it able to bypass the traffic ?  If yes then please explain how can we achieve that ?

Thanks.

Milin

[Ken Stieers]

1. no, you can't port channel the WSA.

2. It depends on how you get the traffic to the WSA.  Are you using transparent redirection (eg WCCP), then yes, when the WSA goes down, it will be detected and traffic will quit being redirected to it.   If you're using explicit redirection, it won't be detected, unless you have 2 WSAs and you cluster them.

Once you get the first WSA up and running, you can request a virtual license and install a vWSA and use that for fail over...

[Ivo Sabev]

For question 2-> you can try version 8.5 with high availability feature between two WSAs