R80.30 cheat sheet - ClusterXL

[HeikoAnkenbrand]

Introduction

This overview gives you an view of the changes in R80.30 ClusterXL. All R80.10 and R80.20 changes are contained in this command overview (cheat sheet). You could download the cheat sheet at the end of this article as a PDF file.

Cheat Sheet

Download

Download: R80.30 ClusterXL cheat sheet PDF (new R80.30 version)

Chapter

More interesting articles:
- R80.x Architecture and Performance Tuning - Link Collection
- Article list (Heiko Ankenbrand)
Cheat Sheet:
- R80.x cheat sheet - fw monitor 
- R80.x cheat sheet - ClusterXL 

References

• sk56202 - How to troubleshoot failovers in ClusterXL
• sk62570 - How to troubleshoot failovers in ClusterXL - Advanced Guide
• sk92723 - Cluster flapping prevention
• sk43984 - Interface flapping when cluster interfaces are connected through several switches
• sk83220 - How to collect ClusterXL debug during boot
• sk31499 - How to find out the Multicast MAC Addresses that are associated with Cluster Virtual inter...
• sk92909 - How to debug ClusterXL to understand why a connection is not synchronized
• sk55081 - Best practice for manual fail-over in ClusterXL
• sk92723 - Cluster flapping prevention
• sk32578 - SecureXL Mechanism
• sk33781 - Performance analysis for Security Gateway NGX R65 / R7x

[Gaurav_Pandya]

Very Handy..

Thanks

[SChalhoub]

Great job.

Tks.

[Udo_Struess]

Thanks

Great job.

[David_Woodcock]

Do you have more cheat sheets?

[Yevgeni_Litvak]

Great overview.

[Richard_Quignon]

You're writing that you have more cheat sheets. 

Do you have any to other topics?

[HeikoAnkenbrand]

Corrected issues

[Nir_Bailey]

A short question.

Use Maestro also ClusterXL?

[_Val_]

@Nir_Bailey 

Maestro uses ClusterXL for some of the functionalities it provides, but this particular cheat sheet is not applicable

[Andrey_Kuzmenko]

That's a good idea with the cheat sheet. It would be very helpful if there were some on other topics too. 

[Roger_Bachstein]

Nice Cheat Sheet for ClusterXL

One qestion:

What is the VSX backup stat?

[_Val_]

@Roger_Bachstein 

In case of VSX in VSLS configuration each of VSs can be distributed through more than two physical cluster member. This situation allows to add a third state to already known Active - Standby HA pair. Backup state means that VS is fully formed on one of the cluster members but does not participate in traffic sync and does not take resources on the physical host. In case of failure, Active will go to Down, Standby will become Active, and Backup will changed to Standby, to ensure the enxt failure does not cause any issue.

Read VSX manual for the details

[Eduard_Mammitzs]

Hello @HeikoAnkenbrand,

what is the BACKUP state on ClusterXL?

I haven't seen that yet.

[_Val_]

@Eduard_Mammitzs see the answer above your question 🙂

[HeikoAnkenbrand]

If you use an VSX environment the  third member can have this status.

It means it is part of the VSX ClusterXL but no sessions are syncronized to this VM.

[Julius_Dockward]

Great job.

Thanks

[HeikoAnkenbrand]

Added unicast Update.

[Harry_Morgan]

Hi @HeikoAnkenbrand 

is it possible to add CCP UNICAST mode?

THX

[joerg_weller]

What is a unicast modus?

[Timothy_Hall]

Question: What transport mode is CCP using on both cluster members?

Answer: Run the command cphaprob -a if on all cluster members. Next to
“CCP Mode”, one of the following terms will indicate the current CCP transport mode
for the cluster member:

• multicast – The default mode in most situations; CCP traffic is forwarded by the
local switch only to the other switchports where other ClusterXL members are
attached. Not all switches forward the CCP traffic transmitted in this mode
properly, which can result in interface flaps.

• broadcast – CCP updates are sent to the broadcast MAC address, and are flooded
to all ports in the same VLAN by the switch, slightly reducing overall network
performance.

• unicast – A new mode introduced in R80.20 that can only be employed by 2-
member clusters to avoid the various pitfalls of the multicast & broadcast modes.

[Sulaman_Tapiree]

Hello @HeikoAnkenbrand,

Please add the unicast mode.

[HeikoAnkenbrand]

coming soon.

[Janosch]

Nice!

[Stephanie_MDO]

Hello. Is there any hope of getting the ClusterXL Cheet sheet updated to R81.10?