Stratus ftServer 2600, Site Planning Manual

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Site Planning for Systems in an ftGateway Group
Communications Line Planning
4-9
If an ASN modem is installed, that model shall comply with the following local regulatory
requirements:

Australia: The modem shall have an A-tick label

New Zealand: The modem shall have a Telepermit
N O T E
ftSSS for VMware vSphere does not support ftGateway
groups.
Site Planning for Systems in an ftGateway Group
Multiple ftServer systems at a site can share a single telephone connection to the ASN
by implementing an
ftGateway group
. Unless VTMs are installed in each system, the
systems in the group must be connected to a single physical Ethernet subnetwork.
One system acts as a
gateway
for ASN connectivity. This gateway system (or
ftGateway master
) requires an analog telephone line that connects to the modem.
Other systems in the ftGateway group, called
ft
G
ateway slaves,
connect to the
gateway system over the network. In this case, Ethernet connections are required for
each system, but only two analog telephone lines for each ftGateway group are
required.
N O T E S
1. ftServer 2600, 4500, and 6300 systems running the
Windows operating system can only be ftGateway
slaves.
2. ftServer 2600, 4500, and 6300 ftGateway slave
systems require an ftGateway master system running
Windows ftSSS Release 5.3.
3. ftServer 2600, 4500, and 6300 systems running Linux
Releases ftSSS 7.0.4 and later or any release of
VMware ESX do not support ftGateway groups.