[AusNOG] So who's read an RFC or Internet Draft?

[Peter Fern]

On 10/12/2015 12:19, Philip Loenneker wrote:
>
> Perhaps I’m missing something in your explanation, but we can put in
> additional collectors at will by essentially cloning the VM and adding
> them to the pool – isn’t that horizontal scaling? The netflow traffic
> is distributed across the pool, not replicated to each one, so adding
> extra servers reduces the load on the existing servers. The primary
> goal of this design was more to reduce the risk of a single failure
> breaking everything rather than to enable horizontal scaling, but I
> think it achieves both.
>

I think what Mark was getting at is that your single point of failure
and vertical scaling point has just moved to the NetScaler.
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