Clustering

Overview

A Ivanti Policy Secure(IPS) cluster is a group of IPS devices that act like a single IPS device, which enables high availability, load balancing and parallel processing. A IPS cluster pair is used to refer to a cluster of two IPS devices and a multiunit IPS cluster refers to a cluster of more than two IPS devices.

Clustering provides the following benefits:

• Load balancing- It refers to efficiently distributing the incoming request across a group of IPS devices. It optimizes resource usage, maximizes throughput, minimizes response time, and avoids overload of any single device.
• High Availability (HA)- It provides increased availability and enables uninterrupted access to data even if one of the devices fails.