topic Re: SMB 1570 and 1590 form cluster/High availability in Spark Firewall (SMB)

SMB 1570 and 1590 form cluster/High availability

JLo — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 01:38:55 GMT

Hi All,

I have a question regarding the SMB clustering. Is it possible to form cluster for SMB 1570 and 1590 together? I checked that the hardware of this 2 model are the same base (checked with TAC). However based on the sk12109, both appliance required to be the same hardware and firmware. I a bit confusing on the term of same hardware, is it need to be same model or same base. Kindly advice.

Re: SMB 1570 and 1590 form cluster/High availability

Tom_Hinoue — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 03:19:26 GMT

Indeed the same appliance/model type is required for High Availability cluster, because the number of CPU cores would cause mismatch of the assigned CoreXL FW instances where CP1570 is operating on base 3 cores VS CP1590 - 4 cores.

Re: SMB 1570 and 1590 form cluster/High availability

G_W_Albrecht — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 07:09:43 GMT

SMB 1570 and 1590 are the same hardware, but the model number is different. The firmware will decide upon model number how many CPU cores are available, and this will make different throughput possible, see the data sheets:

Model	1570	1590
Recommended max number of employees	150	300
Threat prevention throughput	500 Mbps	660 Mbps

This means that clustering is not supported.