NetEngine 8000 M1A Router redundancy Active/Standby Mode

Hi Friend,

how are you?

it is possible using the VRRP protocol. The Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) is a standard-defined fault-tolerant protocol that groups several physical routing devices into a virtual one. If a physical routing device (master) that serves as the next hop of hosts fails, the virtual device switches traffic to a different physical routing device (backup), thereby ensuring service continuity and reliability.


Example configuration:

https://support.huawei.com/hedex/hdx.do?docid=EDOC1100168845&id=EN-US_TASK_0172361790&lang=en

Example Load Balance VRRP configuration:

https://support.huawei.com/hedex/hdx.do?docid=EDOC1100168845&id=EN-US_TASK_0172361793&lang=en

i hope it helpful!

You can use VRRP (Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol) , is a fault-tolerant protocol that groups several routers into a virtual router. If the next hop of a host fails, VRRP switches traffic to another router, which ensures communication continuity and reliability.

·         Reliable transmission:

·         Simplified configurations: Users only need to specify a gateway address without configuring routing protocols on their hosts.

·         Improved user experience: Users are not aware of a single point of failure.

Also you can use MLAG for further redundancy 

https://forum.huawei.com/enterprise/en/vrrp-mc-lag-for-connecting-datacenters/thread/768113-861

Hi friend!

According to your description, the only way to use virtual clusters.

You can refer to the link https://support.huawei.com/enterprise/en/doc/EDOC1100147928/732a5519/concepts-related-to-virtual-cluster

Hope to help you!

Hello,
As far as I know, there is no such function that allows the administrator to synchronize configuration between two routers, as the USG firewall HSB does.
Instead, you can manually do that. Just copy the configuration manually from the 'master' router to the 'backup' router, and shutdown the 'backup' router's interface until the 'master' router fails.
Or you can enhance that plan by using the VRRP.

Take the figure below as an example, You can configure the two routers with the same configuration, except the interface IP address, and create a VRRP group for each interface, to simulate the HSB.