RE: [load balancing] Load Balancer Evaluation: Which would you pick?

From: Andy Gravett (agIZZAThtl.uk.com)
Date: Tue Jan 27 2004 - 13:07:52 EST

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Hi Dwight / guy's

I was wondering if you had reach some sort of conclusion on this subject? I have seen quite alot of e-mails flying around and was wondering if any had helped in forming an opinion.

Andy Gravett

-----Original Message-----
From: Dwight Lee [mailto:dleeIZZATrightmedia.com]
Sent: 27 January 2004 16:21
To: lb-lIZZATvegan.net
Subject: RE: [load balancing] Load Balancer Evaluation: Which would you
pick?

Thank you all for your information and input. I really appreciate it.

Dwight

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-lb-lIZZATvegan.net [mailto:owner-lb-lIZZATvegan.net] On Behalf Of
Mike W
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 11:10 PM
To: lb-lIZZATvegan.net
Subject: Re: [load balancing] Load Balancer Evaluation: Which would you
pick?

Jay,

Before you respond to the entire list with this type of information, you

should check your facts. I do not work at Radware.

Mike

At 12:05 PM 1/26/2004, you wrote:
>Mike,
>
>I thought it was kind of funny that you answered this way, last time I
>checked you worked inside sales at Radware. What other devices have
you used?
>
>Why don't you break down some technical aspects as well if you're going

>to
>be doing some blind marketing for your own company. :^D
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Jay Bivens
>NetScaler, Inc.
>
>On Jan 20, 2004, at 11:04 PM, Mike W wrote:
>
>>Most of your players are first tier - including Radware, F5, Alteon,
>>and
>>Foundry - having had a long time in the industry and some specific
>>focus. I have to concur with another respondent that Alteon hasn't
been
>>the same recently. Foundry has always made a good load basic load
>>balancer - with emphasis on price as their biggest selling point, but
for
>>features and most investment protection Radware and F5 have offered
the
>>greatest diversity in the product lines.
>>
>>Radware is a switch based solution, while F5 is still a unix kernel
>>based
>>product, which some say takes them out of the "switch market" - their
>>marketing discusses their network processor, but one of there
engineers
>>at a trade show last year finally admitted when pressed, that they
didn't
>>use it when doing actual load balancing, only if they were a router.
>>
>>I have been using Radware for a while, and like what they offer,
>>especially when working with the global solutions - everything is in
one
>>box and you get a lot of control over the user traffic. You can tune
the
>>heck out of it to get exactly what you want for both local and global
>>load balancing.
>>
>>If your needs aren't going to grow beyond the basics, then I would
>>find
>>which vendor can offer you the support you need, and then go with
>>that. We have always had good success with the support for the
Radware
>>products, and that was a big deciding factor for us.
>>
>>At 07:28 PM 1/20/2004, you wrote:
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>I'm new to the group and commercial load balancers, so I need to ask
>>>for your expertise in helping me make a decision for my organization.
>>>
>>>Basically, I've got between $40,000 - $50,000 to spend on a pair of
>>>load balancers for a high availability solution. We're basically
>>>serving small HTTP files, mostly gifs and some text. A very tiny
>>>percentage of our traffic will be HTTPS, so it's not a large concern,

>>>just a nice to have.
>>>
>>>Anyway, I've been looking at the following boxes:
>>>
>>>Foundry ServerIron 100
>>>Alteon 3408 / 2424-SSL
>>>F5 BigIP (2400/5100)
>>>Net Scalar (not sure which model exactly)
>>>Radware Web Server Director
>>>
>>>I don't want to bias your opinions by telling you which order our
>>>preference is based on the limited information we have.
>>>
>>>Some details on what we have:
>>>We have two physical web serving boxes with 2 instances of our web
>>>application running on each.
>>>
>>>Each box has 2 Gb interface cards and it looks like our application
>>>can pump out about 300 mbs worth of traffic each nic at the current
>>>application peak. This is still a fairly new application so we
>>>expect to be able to make it more efficient and handle more load. We

>>>will also be adding real servers for this application to grow our
>>>capacity.
>>>
>>>Behind these boxes, we do our own load balancing with the database
>>>and
>>>layer(s) so we're not too concerned about that.
>>>
>>>Any information you guys would be able to offer me would be very much

>>>appreciated. If you need any more information, feel free to ask me.
>>>If you want to respond to me directly, you can reach me at
>>>dleeIZZATrightmedia.com.
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance for your help.
>>>
>>>Dwight Lee
>>>Systems Administrator
>>>Right Media
>>>
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