[AusNOG] Tiny Load Balancers in Australia.

[Guennadi M]

Are there any whitepapers available for alteon 180?

Thanks.

GM



On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Sean K. Finn <Sean.Finn at ozservers.com.au> wrote:
> Hi Nick, Adrian Aaron and others who have replied off-list.
>
> We are *considering* doing a roll-our own solution, but want to avoid it if possible, as we're getting very very busy and would like to change the
> 'throw a technician at it' approach to 'replace the box' type of approach.
>
> Rolling our own solution sounds like fun, and i have had many replies off-list suggesting LVS
>
> e.g. http://www.austintek.com/LVS/LVS-HOWTO/HOWTO/LVS-HOWTO.failover.html
>
> and something like
> http://linux-ha.org
>
> From what I have been told LVS can be setup with VRRP to have ~3 second failover, which is very very nice.
>
> I like the price (Time only) as we have oodles of servers sitting ready and awaiting a purpose, however there have come to light some sub-$1000 boxes that look like they can do the trick.
> (And as a bounus to me, don't cost any time).
>
> I have been suggested some alteon 180 aceswitch load balancers as a bought solution, does anyone know how these go? I've heard good reviews.
>
> We'll just be doing some very very basic http load balancing.
>
> Cheers,
> Sean.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Aaron Weller // Crucial Paradigm
> Sent: Tuesday, 5 August 2008 3:18 PM
> To: Sean K. Finn
> Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Tiny Load Balancers in Australia.
>
> Hey Sean,
>
> Have you thought of using of using LVS, this is a fairly cheap solution
> and can easily push 300mbps+ on a Dual Xeon 3.0ghz/4GB RAM/2 x 1gbit NIC.
>
> The only downside is they require a bit more to manage, and no fancy
> management interface. I do believe you can setup fail-over, however have
> not had any experience in doing this.
>
> Regards,
> Aaron
>
> Sean K. Finn wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>>
>> I'm pulling my hair out trying to find two **tiny** load balancers for
>> a remote server installation to balance IP traffic / http requests to
>> two web servers.
>>
>> Does anyone know a local Australian source of entry-level load balancers?
>>
>> At most I'd need to balance between 10mbps to 100mbps between two
>> servers.
>>
>> IPv4 is fine.
>>
>> What I'm really after is a unit that has vrrp or something like it so
>> the units have their own failover capability if one dies, plus the
>> necessary traffic direction between two servers. (nothing fancy
>> required session wise on the load balancers, just pure traffic
>> redirection).
>>
>> This is an excercise in application redundancy and not necessarily
>> performance.
>>
>> (Vendors please note: Feel free to post off list, vendor offers
>> welcome, but if you want to take me on the three week hump me and dump
>> me vendor dating trail, please don't.
>>
>> I need this gear ASAP and don't want to fork out 20 to 40 grand for
>> two 'entry level' 750mbps units as they are overkill, neither do I
>> want you to take me to lunch and build a relationship before you give
>> me pricing.
>>
>> I need something tiny but dependable, and I need to get the ball
>> rolling ASAP)
>>
>> If anyone has any recommendations for gear-to-purchase or
>> alternatively a software solution on server-based hardware, I'm all ears.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Sean.
>>
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