[140647] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Experience with Open Source load balancers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cooper)
Mon May 16 19:37:27 2011
In-Reply-To: <DFA5AECDEC85EE4087D45C463C19B375134FFFA292@KWAEXMAIL1.ARRS.ARRISI.COM>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 19:37:22 -0400
From: William Cooper <wcooper02@gmail.com>
To: "Welch, Bryan" <Bryan.Welch@arrisi.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
S/W vs H/W is really a question rooted in performance and feature
needs vs cost... weigh your options carefully.
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Welch, Bryan <Bryan.Welch@arrisi.com> wrot=
e:
> Greetings all.
>
> I've been tasked with comparing the use of open source load balancing sof=
tware against commercially available off the shelf hardware such as F5, whi=
ch is what we currently use. =A0We use the load balancers for traditional l=
oad balancing, full proxy for http/ssl traffic, ssl termination and certifi=
cate management, ssl and http header manipulation, nat, high availability o=
f the physical hardware and stateful failover of the tcp sessions. =A0These=
units will be placed at the customer prem supporting our applications and =
services and we'll need to support them accordingly.
>
> Now my "knee jerk" reaction to this is that it's a really bad idea. =A0It=
is the heart and soul of our data center network after all. =A0However, on=
ce I started to think about it I realized that I hadn't had any real experi=
ence with 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 =
these solutions?
>
> TIA, replies off list are welcomed.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Bryan
>
>
