VSX Provisioning

The procedures for provisioning and configuring VSX Gateways, clusters and Virtual Devices using the Multi-Domain Server model are essentially the same as described for the Security Gateway management model. The most important difference is that you must first create and configure each Domain and its associated Domain Management Server objects using the SmartConsole connected to a Multi-Domain Server.

Each Domain Management Server is the functional equivalent of one VSX Gateway. You connect to each Domain Management Server with SmartConsole to work with network objects, security policies and other objects for that VSX Gateway.

This is the basic workflow for provisioning a VSX environment in a Multi-Domain Server deployment:

1. Define and configure Multi-Domain Server and Multi-Domain Log Server as applicable for your deployment.
2. Create and configure a Domain and Domain Management Server for each VSX Gateway and/or VSX Cluster.
3. With SmartConsole, connect to the Domain Management Server to create and configure the VSX Gateway and/or VSX Cluster objects.

   Configure the default security policy for these objects as necessary.

4. Define individual Domains and Domain Management Servers as required for your deployment.
5. Create and configure Virtual Systems and other Virtual Devices for each Domain in the SmartConsole connected to that Domain.