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Licensing for HA setup

sambytes

Hi everyone, I am new to this forum, I am going to deploy Sophos UTM 9 to 2 sites.  here goes my questions

 

How many Sophos UTM license do I need to purchase if 

  1. I opt to have a warm/warm setup (both site gets traffic all the time), 
  2. I opt to have a warm/cold setup (the cold site only gets traffic when the warm site is down)

 

Thanks



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    with active/active HA you need all licences/subscriptions two times.

    with active/standby HA you need licences once.

    but consider ... with active/active only one device gets the packets/traffic and delegates some of them to second node.

    you do not double the performance.

    so mostly we suggest to use active/standby HA ... possible with the next bigger device.

    the takeover-time is the same with active/standby HA as active/active.


    Dirk

    Systema Gesellschaft für angewandte Datentechnik mbH  // Sophos Platinum Partner
    Sophos Solution Partner since 2003
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    with active/active HA you need all licences/subscriptions two times.

    with active/standby HA you need licences once.

    but consider ... with active/active only one device gets the packets/traffic and delegates some of them to second node.

    you do not double the performance.

    so mostly we suggest to use active/standby HA ... possible with the next bigger device.

    the takeover-time is the same with active/standby HA as active/active.


    Dirk

    Systema Gesellschaft für angewandte Datentechnik mbH  // Sophos Platinum Partner
    Sophos Solution Partner since 2003
    If a post solves your question, click the 'Verify Answer' link at this post.

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  • 0 in reply to dirkkotte

    Hi Dirk, 

     

    Thanks for your advise.

    So in a active/standby HA setup, suppose the switching happens automatically when the active site becomes inaccessible, how do I automatically update the license so that the newly activated node gets the license?

     

    Thanks

  • 0 in reply to sambytes

    An Sophos HA (active/standby or active/active) is one system

    Booth nodes share one configuration and one license.

    If you power down the cluster and starts booth nodes without connection, you see the same license at booth devices.

    The Failover happens automatically when the active site becomes inaccessible or a link goes down at the master while not at the slave.

     

     


    Dirk

    Systema Gesellschaft für angewandte Datentechnik mbH  // Sophos Platinum Partner
    Sophos Solution Partner since 2003
    If a post solves your question, click the 'Verify Answer' link at this post.

  • 0 in reply to sambytes

    Selamat pagi and welcome to the UTM Community!

    Dirk's answers are ones you can trust.

    Cheers - Bob 

     
    Sophos UTM Community Moderator
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