Gateway cluster
An edge gateway is required. You can bring your own gateway appliance or choose from one of the following options:
- Gateway cluster with Juniper® vSRX
- Gateway cluster with FortiGate® Virtual Appliance
- FortiGate Security Appliance
The gateway cluster is deployed in the same data center as the consolidated cluster.
The gateway cluster is available for all firewall appliances except for FortiGate Security Appliance.
The data center of the consolidated cluster must be available for gateway cluster deployment. Gateway cluster deployment is not supported for Dallas 09.
Cluster name
The gateway cluster name is preset to instance name-edge.
You can also specify a cluster name that meets the following requirements:
- Only lowercase alphabetic, numeric, and hyphen (-) characters are allowed.
- The cluster name must start with a lowercase alphabetic character.
- The cluster name must end with a lowercase alphabetic or numeric character.
- The maximum length of the cluster name is 10 characters.
- The cluster name must be unique within your account.
Compute capacity
For compute capacity, you get two cluster hosts and two 3.8 TB SSD storage.
CPU model
You can choose between the following CPU models:
- Dual Intel Xeon® Silver 4210 processor (Cascade Lake) with 20 cores, 2.20 GHz, and 10 Gb of uplink speed.
- Dual Intel Xeon Gold 5218 processor (Cascade Lake) with 32 cores, 2.30 GHz, and 25 Gb of uplink speed.
RAM
You can select different values of RAM in the range 64 GB - 1.5 TB.
Networking type
Select either Public and private network or Private network only for the gateway cluster.