Thursday, May 10, 2018

Understanding VSX -


Key Terms
  • VSX Gateway 
    • Physical appliance that hosts virtual firewall gateway
  • Virtual System
    • is a virtual firewall that provides the functionality of a security gateway with full firewall and vpn facilities. 
    • you can have multiple virtual system running concurrently on a single VSX gateway 
  • Wrap Link 
    • is a virtual point to point connection between a virtual system and a virtual router or virtual switch. 
    • each side of the warp link represents a virtual interface of the appropriate device
  • Virtual Router
    • A software equlivent of a physical router
  • Virtual Switch 
    • A software equlivent of a physical switch
  • VSLS 
    • Virtual System Load Sharing is a VSX cluster technology that assigns virtual system traffic to different active cluster members. 

  • DMI - Dedicate Management Interface