[140643] in North American Network Operators' Group
Experience with Open Source load balancers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Welch, Bryan)
Mon May 16 19:16:49 2011
From: "Welch, Bryan" <Bryan.Welch@arrisi.com>
To: "'nanog@nanog.org'" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 16:15:45 -0700
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Greetings all.
I've been tasked with comparing the use of open source load balancing softw=
are against commercially available off the shelf hardware such as F5, which=
is what we currently use. We use the load balancers for traditional load =
balancing, full proxy for http/ssl traffic, ssl termination and certificate=
management, ssl and http header manipulation, nat, high availability of th=
e physical hardware and stateful failover of the tcp sessions. These units=
will be placed at the customer prem supporting our applications and servic=
es and we'll need to support them accordingly.
Now my "knee jerk" reaction to this is that it's a really bad idea. It is =
the heart and soul of our data center network after all. However, once I s=
tarted to think about it I realized that I hadn't had any real experience w=
ith this solution beyond tinkering with it at home and reading about it in =
years past.
Can anyone offer any operational insight and real world experiences with th=
ese solutions?
TIA, replies off list are welcomed.
Regards,
Bryan
