Articles by tag "FortiGate HA"

1. Fortinet-Centric Datacenter Consolidation: Designing a Simple, Highly Available Edge for Retail Enterprises
   Selene Gong

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   Retail enterprises operate under constant uptime pressure while managing limited IT resources and strict budget constraints. Traditional multi-vendor datacenter edge architectures—separate firewalls, routers, switches, and management platforms—often introduce operational complexity that ...
2. Designing Reliable FortiGate HA with Cisco C9300: A/A vs A/P, HSRP and Failover Pitfalls
   Selene Gong

   34
   In modern enterprise edge design, pairing a FortiGate HA cluster with a Cisco Catalyst 9300 core is common practice. On paper, the architecture appears straightforward: ISP → FortiGate HA → C9300 StackWise → Access Layer. In production, however, reliability is determined not by topology ...