Design guidelines

The following guidelines were followed during the creation of this distributed firewall design:

• The solution design must meet the diverse requirements of the organization. These requirements include network zones design, existing physical and virtual platforms, applications, services, operating procedures, cloud management platform integration, and performance, as comprehensively described in the solution requirement document.
• The solution design should contribute to reducing operational effort by lowering the number of firewall rules to manage.
• The solution design should dramatically improve (or at least not hinder) performance. Improving or maintaining performance is achieved by providing inline rate rule processing, which reduces contention and latency by providing linear scalability.
• The solution design should grant availability. Availability is typically achieved by providing hypervisor redundancy.
• The solution design should provide an acceptable level of security. Security...