Connection Dropped intermittenty in Active/Active VM Series

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Connection Dropped intermittenty in Active/Active VM Series

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Hi 

 

I have Palo alto vm series 8.1.0 installed with Active/Active HA setup. 

All the interfaces and vlans have come up and ableto access the zones hosts. 

 

But the connection getting dropped very frequently. say like, if i try reaching any other zones  it will be pinging for first 10 times, again i see lots of request timed out and it starts connecting fine 

 

Tried suspecing one of the firewall looks like fixing the problem (but still not sure, luckily i didnt face anything during the time)

 

Could any one suggest anything else to be enable when we configure Active/Active HA setup? any zone protection profile incase? pleaes suggest. 

 

thanks,

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Cyber Elite
Cyber Elite

@NetworkProjects,

So first thing off the bat get off 8.1.0 and update both units to 8.1.2. If you are going to run the 8.1 code you'll want the latest maintenance release. 

Why was Active/Active setup selected? When running a VM series I really wouldn't recommend running an Active/Active deployment. 

In an Active/Active situation I wouldn't recommend using PING as a diagnosis tool. Open a connection to a server and verify that the SOS is working correctly and you aren't trying to pass the session between both A/A members. You may be introducing async routing and whatever host you are running this on might not be able to handle this type of setup. 

There's quite a few setup steps you need to take to get Active/Active routing working in a VM enviroment and actually make sure that it works as expected. If you don't have Async routing already I would highly recommend dropping A/A. 

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