Re: [nznog] Load balance appliances

On 11/11/2014 10:38 AM, "Jodi Thomson" wrote:

Just been pointed out that I forgot to add what we're aiming to load

balance

at this stage it'll be mostly web traffic, but also looking at possibly

pop/imap/smtp and streaming on port 1935 later on down the track

cheers

________________________________ From: "Jodi Thomson" To: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Sent: Tuesday, 11 November, 2014 10:20:58 AM Subject: [nznog] Load balance appliances

Hi All

Just wondering what people are using these days for dedicated load

balance appliances. Last ones I had anything to do with were the Alteon Ace Directors going back 7-8 yrs so am a little out of touch with whats in use today.

Cheers Jodi

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Might be worth stating throughput, expected number of active sessions, ssl required, any need to do on the fly rewrites and if you are happy to support any deployment of an open source solution. Hardware appliance wise F5, A10 and citrix are all contenders. Pricey though. HAProxy on the other hand is very capable but you don't have a vendor to take you to lunch... It all depends on what you want to do and how you need to support it.