SonicWall CMS gives organizations a single administrative user interface to
manage multiple SMA appliances. CMS can be deployed in your private cloud
as virtual appliance, or on a public cloud using bring your own license (BYOL)
on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. The administrator can
use the Central Management Console (CMC) of the CMS to manage all SMA
appliances, regardless of location. CMS and managed appliances are closely
integrated through native communications secured with TLS. CMS does not
require a dedicated hardware and runs on any virtual appliance. It manages
appliances that run SMA OS v12.1 or higher.

Features And Benefits

Global load-balancing – SonicWall Global Traffic Optimizer
(GTO) offers intelligent global load-balancing with
zero-impact to users

Dynamic high availability – Managed appliances that run
SMA OS 12.1 or higher can be configured as Active/Active or
Active/Standby

Zero impact failover – Universal session persistence
provides high-performance, low-latency failover in a global
high availability cluster.

Dynamic licensing – User licenses no longer have to
be applied to individual SMA appliances.

Custom alerts – Alerts can be configured to generate SNMP
traps that are monitored by any IT infrastructure Network
Management System (NMS)