Best Practices for Using Meraki Firewalls as Data Center Firewalls

[jOMeraki2]

Hello,

I am considering using two Meraki firewalls (configured in High Availability mode) as data center firewalls to manage traffic between servers and other VLANs.

I would like to know:

1. Is it recommended to use Meraki firewalls in this role within a data center environment?
2. What are the best practices for configuring Meraki firewalls for this use case?
3. Are there any specific considerations or limitations I should keep in mind when implementing them in such a setup?

Your insights and recommendations would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you!

[DarrenOC]

As always…it depends!

- budget

- overall solution design

- Firewalling requirements within the DC

- what issues or business requirements are you looking to address by implementing DC firewalls

[jOMeraki2]

I have a client with a flat network who wants to deploy a firewall in front of the servers without changing any IP addresses or configurations. He also wants to enable syslog on the firewall for traffic monitoring and analysis. I want to configure the firewall as a bridge (Layer 2).

[RaphaelL]

As much as I love Meraki and the fact that I don't know how large your environnement is, I wouldn't use a Meraki MX for that.