Section 6:Failover Configuration

Failover provides redundancy for the ASA in the event of hardware of software failure. The ASA supports two types of failover:

image  Hardware failure

image  Stateful failover

Hardware failover provides redundancy in case of a hardware failure. This is achieved with another ASA that acts as a standby unit to take over from the primary ASA in the event of a failure. With hardware failover, the connections are dropped, and clients much reestablish their sessions.

Stateful failover passes per-connection state information from ...

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