[140650] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Experience with Open Source load balancers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Welch, Bryan)
Mon May 16 23:51:39 2011
From: "Welch, Bryan" <Bryan.Welch@arrisi.com>
To: Randy Morse <randymorse@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 20:51:10 -0700
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Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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=D8 I have had great success with ha proxy http://haproxy.1wt.eu/ -Randy
Can you elaborate on your config?
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Welch, Bryan <Bryan.Welch@arrisi.com<mailt=
o:Bryan.Welch@arrisi.com>> wrote:
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
