RE: LoadBalancing products: Foundry ServerIron
How about Local Director?
Everyone I've spoke to about LD is very unhappy with it's performance. -----Original Message----- From: Richard Colella [mailto:colella@aol.net] Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 5:38 AM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: LoadBalancing products: Foundry ServerIron Products are also available from Alteon, Cisco (Distributed Director) and Resonate. Last time I looked, none of these products does everything one wants, IMHO, but the set union of features comes pretty close. --Richard
I believe BigIP has a product called DNS3 that serves a similar function. One of our ".com's" uses it to support their dual co-lo set-up.
-TY
-----Original Message----- From: Brantley Jones [mailto:bjones@redundant.net] Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 10:06 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: LoadBalancing products: Foundry ServerIron
At 09:28 PM 7/5/2000 -0400, you wrote:
they also have the dns based solution available on serverirons. -- dima.
Speaking of using a DNS proxy, does anybody know of anybody else doing
this
besides Foundry??
Brantley
2000-07-06-11:56:34 Karyn Ulriksen:
How about Local Director?
Everyone I've spoke to about LD is very unhappy with it's performance.
That can only be because you didn't speak to me:-). Seriously, I've used them a fair bit, and like 'em a lot. Their H-A failover is superb, they load balance really gracefully, their hold-time feature (making assignments sticky) works well with simple website designs for session tracking; and I really love the way they passively monitor the performance of all servers in the farm and consistently route traffic to the currently fastest server. I've heard that they max out around 80Mbps. That was a year or so ago, I've no idea if that's still the case. I've never hit their limits. But I can believe that a faster-but-dumber load balancer would have a higher ceiling. -Bennett
It depends which Local Director. The 430 is screaming fast and the 416 in conjunction with a 6509 and ASLB is very fast too. I have been using both solutions at customers sites with peak traffic of around a million hits per day. -- Alberto U. Begliomini Email: aub@coldstone.com Coldstone Consulting, LLC Phone: 650-400-3990 Security, Data Centers Design and Management Fax: 650-654-5938 Karyn Ulriksen wrote:
How about Local Director?
Everyone I've spoke to about LD is very unhappy with it's performance.
-----Original Message----- From: Richard Colella [mailto:colella@aol.net] Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 5:38 AM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: LoadBalancing products: Foundry ServerIron
Products are also available from Alteon, Cisco (Distributed Director) and Resonate. Last time I looked, none of these products does everything one wants, IMHO, but the set union of features comes pretty close.
--Richard
I believe BigIP has a product called DNS3 that serves a similar function. One of our ".com's" uses it to support their dual co-lo set-up.
-TY
-----Original Message----- From: Brantley Jones [mailto:bjones@redundant.net] Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 10:06 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: LoadBalancing products: Foundry ServerIron
At 09:28 PM 7/5/2000 -0400, you wrote:
they also have the dns based solution available on serverirons. -- dima.
Speaking of using a DNS proxy, does anybody know of anybody else doing
this
besides Foundry??
Brantley
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