Terms

Active

State of a Cluster Member Security Gateway that is part of a cluster. that handles network connections that pass through the cluster Two or more Security Gateways that work together in a redundant configuration - High Availability, or Load Sharing.. In a cluster deployment, only one Cluster Member is Active and can handle connections.

Active Directory (AD)

Microsoft® directory information service. Stores data about user, computer, and service identities for authentication and access.

Availability Set

A collection of Virtual Machines that are managed together to provide application redundancy and reliability. The use of an availability set ensures that during either a planned or unplanned maintenance event at least one Virtual Machine is available. (Description from the Microsoft Azure Collection of integrated cloud services that developers and IT professionals use to build, deploy, and manage applications through a global network of data centers managed by Microsoft®. glossary).

Azure Environment

An Azure environment an independent deployment of Microsoft Azure, such as Azure Cloud for global Azure and Azure China Cloud for Azure operated by 21Vianet in China.

Azure PowerShell

A command-line interface to manage Azure services via a command line from Windows. (Description from the Microsoft Azure glossary)

Check Point WatchDog

A process that launches and monitors critical processes such as Check Point daemons on the local machine, and attempts to restart them if they fail.

Failover

Also, Fail-over. Transferring of a control over traffic (packet filtering) from a Cluster Member that suffered a failure to another Cluster Member (based on internal cluster algorithms).

Load Balancer

A resource that distributes incoming traffic among computers in a network. In Azure, a Load Balancer distributes traffic to Virtual Machines defined in a Load Balancer set. A Load Balancer can be Internet-facing, or it can be internal. (Description from the Microsoft Azure glossary)

Resource

An item that is part of your Azure solution. Each Azure service enables you to deploy different types of resources, such as databases or Virtual Machines. (Description from the Microsoft Azure glossary)

Resource Group

A container in Resource Manager that holds related resources for an application. The resource group can include all of the resources for an application, or only those resources that are logically grouped together. You can decide how you want to allocate resources to resource groups based on what makes the most sense for your organization.

Standby

State of a Cluster Member that is ready to be promoted to Active state (if the current Active Cluster Member fails). Applies only to ClusterXL High Availability Mode.

Subnet

A logical subdivision of an IP network.

User Defined Routing

A route table or a set of rules to create network routes, so that yourVirtual Machine can handle the traffic between subnets and to the Internet.

Virtual Machine (VM)

The software implementation of a physical computer that runs an operating system. Multiple Virtual Machines can run simultaneously on the same hardware. In Azure, Virtual Machines are available in a variety of sizes. (Definition from the Microsoft Azure glossary).

Virtual Network Environment of logically connected Virtual Machines.

A network that provides connectivity between your Azure resources that is isolated from all other Azure tenants. An Azure VPN Gateway lets you establish connections between Virtual Networks and between a Virtual Network and an on-premises network. You can fully control the IP address blocks, DNS settings, Security Policies Collection of rules that control network traffic and enforce organization guidelines for data protection and access to resources with packet inspection., and route tables within a Virtual Network. (Description from the Microsoft Azure glossary)