HIPservice High Availability (HA)

High Availability (HA) HIPswitches provide hardware redundancy in a hot-standby mode. HIPswitches installed in an HA configuration maintain a heartbeat on a dedicated Ethernet link where only the current primary HIPswitch is participating in overlay network communications. If the primary HIPswitch fails to send heartbeat messages to the secondary, the secondary takes over overlay network communications for the HA pair.