Enabling Multi-Instances - SonicWALL SonicOSX 7 Getting Started Manual

Enabling Multi-Instances

This feature is enabled from the Settings screen. To enable Multi-instances, we first reserve logical blades
and front panel ports that are used for supporting spawned instances.
To Enable Multiple Instances:
1. To select the number of logical blades, click and select up to two. Click Accept to save changes. This
step requires the chassis to reboot for changes to take effect.
2. The next step is to reserve front panel ports for instances. These ports are the ones available for
instance configuration.
3. To select ports, click on ports that are orange. Selected ports turn green. The legend on the right of
the display provides details on the colors and the status of ports.
4. Click Accept to save changes. This step does not require a reboot. Front panel port reservations can
be modified anytime after multiple instances are enabled.
5. Ports reserved for the instances are green, and ports available to instances, but not yet reserved, are
orange. To reserve an orange port for instances, simply click on it to turn it green.
After Multi-Instances are enabled and logical blades are selected and ports are reserved, the reserved ports
for Multi-Instances are exclusive, that is, not available for the rest of the sub-system.
Any time Multi-Instances is disabled and the chassis is rebooted, all the Multi-Instance port(s) are
unreserved and are available to the rest of the system while all instances configured in the system are lost.
SELECTING PORTS FOR INSTANCES
Currently, a maximum of two logical blades might be configured to support instances. With four logical
blades in the system, two logical blades are used by the multi-bladed firewall while the other two can be
used for instances. However, the configuration is flexible, we could have three logical blades running in
multi-bladed firewall mode with one logical blade configured to launch instances.
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