[AusNOG] Load Balancer Experience / recommendations ?

[David Hughes]

Yeah, hard to go past the functionality of F5 LTM.  We did some amazing stuff like announcing a /32 for a service VIP from the load balancers via BGP for inter-site fail-over.  There's a bizarre amount of flexibility in those boxes.

But, they were by far the most expensive bit of kit we used per mbps of switched traffic.  The CapEx is pretty high but the on-going costs can be eye watering.  These days I'd look at the Foundry/Brocade and Netscaler solutions as well as they were significantly more cost effective and should be quite mature products by now.


David
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On 26/07/2012, at 11:44 AM, Christopher Pollock wrote:

> We've been doing a bit lately with F5's LTM / GTM, which are crazy-awesome,
> but probably not that cost-effective compared to other solutions.  If you
> can be bothered learning to use them, Citrix Netscalers are way cheaper
> although less ... well, less good.
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> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Sean K. Finn
> <sean.finn at ozservers.com.au>wrote:
> 
>> Hi Noggers,****
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>> I’m after some advice for the best, practical, and current generation
>> server load balancers that people are using at present.****
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>> Our older Alteons are ageing and are really only geared up for V4 so I’m
>> looking to freshen up.****
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>> I’m keen to hear what’s new / current / cost effective / feature filled at
>> present in peoples minds to go window shopping.****
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>> Kind Regards,****
>> 
>> Sean.****
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