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Re: Experiences with A10 AX series Load Balancers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ck)
Wed Mar 24 23:07:16 2010
In-Reply-To: <DA6E0F4426DFA9408A23D69078069DA504D56D48EC@PLB-EXCCR01.adknowledge.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:06:39 -0700
From: ck <ck@sandcastl.es>
To: Justin Horstman <jhorstman@adknowledge.com>
Cc: "Welch, Bryan" <Bryan.Welch@arrisi.com>,
"nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
the a10s actually do pretty good at relatively high load levels as well, an=
d
they do have an asic(multiple), fyi..
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Justin Horstman
<jhorstman@adknowledge.com>wrote:
> The boxes do alright at low load levels. They do not have an asic tech li=
ke
> the F5s so choke on large amounts of traffic. Management is a bit immatur=
e
> and you will find yourself having to use the CLI and the Gui to accomplis=
h
> most advanced tasks.
>
> When we put them head to head A10 AX3200 vs F5 6400 ltm (note: 6400 was
> what 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 o=
n
> 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
> that 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 blow=
n
> 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 o=
f
> 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]
> 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 a=
nd
> their products? They claim 2x the performance at =BD the cost and am a b=
it
> leery as you can imagine.
>
> We are looking to replace our aging F5 BigIP LTM's and will be evaluating
> these along with the Netscaler and new generation F5 boxes.
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Bryan
>
>
>
