Cisco ASA Active/Active failover provides high availability while allowing both firewalls to actively process traffic. Unlike Active/Standby mode, where only one unit handles traffic at a time, Active/Active mode enables load sharing between two ASAs by utilizing multiple failover groups.
This deployment is ideal for multi-context mode, ensuring redundancy and improved performance in high-traffic environments. Each firewall actively handles different sets of connections, enhancing fault tolerance while maintaining security policies and stateful failover capabilities.
Active/Active failover is commonly used in dynamic enterprise networks requiring scalability, minimal downtime, and optimized resource utilization.
You might also be interested in these labs:
The default username and password for images used in this course is as follows, however you will hear new passwords during the course if the instructor changes the credentials:
Image name | Username | Password |
IOL images | No username | No password |
CSR1000v | Admin | Admin |
C8000v | Admin | admin |
Viptela devices | Admin | admin |
Windows Server | Administrator | Test123 |
IOS-XR | Admin | Enter new password |
Cisco ASA 802 | no username | no passwd, hit enter |
Cisco ASA 8.4.2, 9.1.5 | no username | no passwd, hit enter |
Cisco ASAv | no username | no passwd, hit enter |
Cisco IPS | cisco | ciscoips123 |
Cisco WSA | admin | ironport |
Cisco ESA | admin | ironport |
Cisco WAAS | admin | default |
Cisco XR9K | Cisco | Cisco |
Cisco NX9K | admin | admin |
