Hyperscale Security Fabric
The Hyperscale Security Fabric (HSF) is an innovative solution designed to address
the scalability and performance needs of large data centers and service providers.
Organizations increasingly require scalable, elastic, and/or resilient
firewalls delivered in a virtual form factor. Extensive public and private cloud
infrastructures necessitate dynamic scaling, high-throughput protection, and session
resiliency to guarantee business continuity and adapting to the organization's
operational pace.
The
Hyperscale Security Fabric (HSF) is an
innovative solution designed to address the scalability and performance needs of
organisations through its Gateway nodes and auto-scaling DP nodes. HSF eliminates
the need for third-party external load balancing by deploying AI-Gateways as fixed
capacity NGFWs that both inspect and also load balance to the dynamically scaling DP
nodes behind them. You can efficiently manage your network security as your data
center grows and achieve high throughput capabilities of around 100 Gbps using 4
AI-Gateways and scale to over 200 Gbps with additional AI-DP instances (up to a
maximum of 6).
HSF supports the following:
- Session resiliency with session failover to healthy firewall instances.
- Auto-scaling based on session utilization. You can configure auto-scale
parameters to dynamically adjust the number of AI-DP instances based on traffic
demands.
- Simplified and automated deployment through Software Orchestration Panorama
plugin.
- Rolling upgrades with rollback support, ensuring minimal disruption during
maintenance.
- Monitoring and visibility to view the firewall cluster as a single entity within
Panorama.
- Customer-facing APIs and CLIs for querying individual firewall member status and
performance metrics.
