[AusNOG] Load Balancer Experience / recommendations ?

[Coleman, Patrick]

We use nginx on Linux as a reverse proxy (and occasionally load balancer) and it's fantastic. Supposed to be better architecturally than varnish, and designed to handle 10,000 concurrent connections on very modest hardware. I've used varnish as well a while back, and nginx seems nicer to configure.

Cheers,

Patrick


-----Original Message-----
From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Sean K. Finn
Sent: Thursday, 26 July 2012 10:40 AM
To: 'Mark Newton'; 'Julian DeMarchi'
Cc: 'ausnog at lists.ausnog.net'
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Load Balancer Experience / recommendations ?

You're all beginning to scare me with the linux talk!

Thanks for all replies off list..

So far, Off List there have been..

Several plusses for F5 Gear (Which have a trial VMware VM that you can demo, apparently, from one source, but from another source I've been told to avoid the VM LB in production and use the hardware device) (Of course!) http://www.f5.com/products/big-ip/
Several ' I Use' Brocade ADX's http://www.brocade.com/adx Several 'Check into Riverbed Stingray' http://www.riverbed.com/us/products/stingray/

And one Fortinet /Fortigate recommendation from Mr Macko of Intervolve ;) http://www.fortinet.com/products/fortigate/80C.html / http://www.fortinet.com/products/fortigate/200B.html


On the diy front:
https://www.varnish-cache.org/ - Credit Network Man (Mark Newton) http://www.keepalived.org/ - Credit Julian, who likes to build his own kernels from scratch, in binary, in the dark, without a monitor, using only a serially attached dot matrix printer as his terminal.
And one anonymous recommendation for http://www.linux-ha.org/wiki/Main_Page


Lots of options!

The general consensus so far seems to be 'Grab some hardware F5 if you can afford it'.

S.

-----Original Message-----
From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Mark Newton
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 12:08 PM
To: Julian DeMarchi
Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Load Balancer Experience / recommendations ?

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:55:56AM +1000, Julian DeMarchi wrote:

 > I personaly use keepalive for my load-balacing needs. It works perfect  > for me, and supprots ipv6.
 > If you're looking to do it cheaper(TM), have your linux blokes look into it.

If you're going down that path, Varnish is a good place to look too.
https://www.varnish-cache.org/

   - mark
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