[140666] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Experience with Open Source load balancers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Graydon)
Tue May 17 14:42:12 2011
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 08:41:22 -1000
From: Paul Graydon <paul@paulgraydon.co.uk>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 05/17/2011 08:23 AM, Tom Hill wrote:
>> I've worked with open source and commercial solutions, and while the
>> open source systems were almost always far more flexible, and cheaper
>> up front, they certainly required more work to get going.. Once setup
>> and running though both types of solutions had pretty equal amounts of
>> maintenance, with the commercial solutions requiring somewhat less
>> time/babysitting for upgrades and to enable or use new features or
>> functionality.
> I worry far more about upgrades to proprietary appliances (where it's
> often the whole system image), than I do about a few package updates on
> a Linux machine (followed by a service restart, or two).
>
> But still, pretty well worded. :)
>
> Tom
Can't speak for other brands these days but F5s have two hard disks in
them. You can upgrade the software on the hot-spare, boot off that and
confirm everything is working. If it isn't you can just switch back.
Paul
