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RE: Experiences with A10 AX series Load Balancers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin Horstman)
Wed Mar 24 18:34:25 2010
From: Justin Horstman <jhorstman@adknowledge.com>
To: "Welch, Bryan" <Bryan.Welch@arrisi.com>, "nanog@nanog.org"
<nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:33:08 -0500
In-Reply-To: <DFA5AECDEC85EE4087D45C463C19B375134183920C@KWAEXMAIL1.ARRS.ARRISI.COM>
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The boxes do alright at low load levels. They do not have an asic tech like=
the F5s so choke on large amounts of traffic. Management is a bit immature=
and you will find yourself having to use the CLI and the Gui to accomplish=
most advanced tasks.
When we put them head to head A10 AX3200 vs F5 6400 ltm (note: 6400 was wha=
t we were looking to replace)
Test:
1000 concurrent users from Gomez's Networks Loadtesting platform hitting as=
fast as the requests would close, going through our standard vip config on=
the f5, and the A10 engineering teams 3 best efforts to beat that config =
that balanced between two Identical Dell 1950 servers serving a php page t=
hat responded with a random number (to avoid caching). The 6400 we used was=
in production at the time, and was older so we were expecting to get blown=
away, see the results here:
F5 - Peaked 160k completed transactions a minute sustained for 10 minutes, =
0 errors, 112ms average transaction response time
A10 - Held 60k completed transactions a minute sustained for 10 minutes, 0 =
errors, 360ms average transaction response time
If anyone is interested in the graphs I think I can still pull them out of =
gomez. Though notable that this was all done a year ago, so things might be=
different now.
~J
-----Original Message-----
From: Welch, Bryan [mailto:Bryan.Welch@arrisi.com]=20
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 8:35 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Experiences with A10 AX series Load Balancers?
Does anyone have any experiences good/bad/indifferent with this company and=
their products? They claim 2x the performance at =BD the cost and am a bi=
t leery as you can imagine.
We are looking to replace our aging F5 BigIP LTM's and will be evaluating t=
hese along with the Netscaler and new generation F5 boxes.
Regards,
Bryan
