Creating a Services Gateway Chassis Cluster—Overview

Below is an overview of the basic steps to create a services gateway chassis cluster.

For the basic steps to set up a services router chassis cluster, see Creating a Services Router Chassis Cluster—Overview.

Note: For clusters composed of services gateways, the two nodes in a cluster must be identical models, but can have any combination of FPCs installed.

To create a services gateway chassis cluster:

1. Physically connect a pair of the same kind of supported Juniper Networks services gateways together:
   1. To create the fabric link between two nodes in a cluster, connect any pair of Gigabit Ethernet interfaces (or pair of 10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces). The only requirement is that both interfaces be Gigabit Ethernet interfaces (or 10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces).

      Figure 67 shows nodes connected using built-in I/O ports for the fabric link.

   2. Connect the control ports that you will use on each gateway (for example, fpc3 and fpc15). Control ports should be on corresponding slots in the two services gateways, with a slot numbering offset of 6 on SRX-series 5600 services gateways and an offset of 12 on SRX-series 5800 services gateways.
2. On the first services gateway to be initialized in the cluster—this is the node that will form the cluster—connect to the console port.

   For connection instructions, see the appropriate Services Gateway Getting Started Guide.

3. Configure the control ports.
4. Use CLI operational mode commands to enable clustering:
   1. Identify the cluster by giving it the cluster ID.
   2. Identify the node by giving it its own node ID and then reboot the system.
5. On the other services gateway, connect to the console port and use CLI operational mode commands to enable clustering:
   1. Identify the cluster the services gateway is joining by setting the same cluster ID you set on first node.
   2. Identify the node by giving its own node ID and then reboot the system.
6. Configure the management interfaces on the cluster.

   See Configuring the Management Interface.

7. Configure the cluster:

   To use J-Web Quick Configuration, see:

   1. Configuring a Chassis Cluster and Redundancy Groups—Quick Configuration
   2. Configuring Redundant Ethernet Interfaces—Quick Configuration
   3. Configuring a Gigabit Interface—Quick Configuration

   To configure the cluster with the CLI, see:

   1. Configuring Chassis Cluster Information
   2. Configuring the Fabric
   3. Configuring Redundancy Groups
   4. Configuring Redundant Ethernet Interfaces—Quick Configuration
   5. Configuring Interface Monitoring
8. To initiate manual failover, see Initiating a Manual Redundancy Group Failover.
9. To configure conditional route advertisement over redundant Ethernet interfaces, see Configuring Conditional Route Advertising.
10. To verify the configuration, see Verifying the Chassis Cluster Configuration.