Hey there, On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Andy Graybeal <[email protected]>wrote:
> Greetings, > I need some help wrapping my head around how to be redundant. > > I'll have 2 firewalls, and 2 UPS's one for each firewall. > > Each firewall will have: > 1. a hot swap raid array (only two HD's set to RAID 1, mirroring). > 2. two hot swap power supplies. > > Is one UPS per firewall agreeable? I don't know how to do it otherwise. I > can't imagine purchasing 4 UPS's, one for each power supply. Seems a little > overkill. I welcome any input. > Plug one hotswap supply from each firewall into both of the UPS boxes you have. That way, even if you have to service a UPS, you won't lose a firewall. I wouldn't dedicate a UPS to each firewall, because any UPS issue makes your bring down a box no matter what. Make sense? Gerald.
