I am a big fan of the F5s - - great performance - been working with them for years. They do however take a bit of getting used to - and some of the features can be a little buggy - although I found there TAC extremely responsive and helpful.
PS: They are fully configurable via a command line. On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:13 AM, Matthew Huff <[email protected]> wrote: > We have a pair of Cisco ACE-20 blades in our core 6500 data center > switches. Since Cisco has EOL the ACE blades and we are retiring > our 6500s (moving to Nexus 5000), we are looking for a replacement load > balancing hardware. This is for high-availability rather > than scalability. Our throughput needs are very low so we are looking at > the bottom end of vendors appliances. > > We are looking at F5, Foundry (Brocade), and Citrix Netscaler. Anyone else > go through this and have recommendations/horror > stories/info they would like to share? Thanks. > > ---- > Matthew Huff | 1 Manhattanville Rd > Director of Operations | Purchase, NY 10577 > OTA Management LLC | Phone: 914-460-4039 > aim: matthewbhuff | Fax: 914-460-4139 > > > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
