the a10s actually do pretty good at relatively high load levels as well, and they do have an asic(multiple), fyi..
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Justin Horstman <[email protected]>wrote: > The boxes do alright at low load levels. They do not have an asic tech like > the F5s so choke on large amounts of traffic. Management is a bit immature > and you will find yourself having to use the CLI and the Gui to accomplish > most advanced tasks. > > When we put them head to head A10 AX3200 vs F5 6400 ltm (note: 6400 was > what we were looking to replace) > > Test: > 1000 concurrent users from Gomez's Networks Loadtesting platform hitting as > fast as the requests would close, going through our standard vip config on > the f5, and the A10 engineering teams 3 best efforts to beat that config > that balanced between two Identical Dell 1950 servers serving a php page > that responded with a random number (to avoid caching). The 6400 we used was > in production at the time, and was older so we were expecting to get blown > away, see the results here: > > F5 - Peaked 160k completed transactions a minute sustained for 10 minutes, > 0 errors, 112ms average transaction response time > A10 - Held 60k completed transactions a minute sustained for 10 minutes, 0 > errors, 360ms average transaction response time > > If anyone is interested in the graphs I think I can still pull them out of > gomez. Though notable that this was all done a year ago, so things might be > different now. > > ~J > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Welch, Bryan [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 8:35 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Experiences with A10 AX series Load Balancers? > > Does anyone have any experiences good/bad/indifferent with this company and > their products? They claim 2x the performance at ½ the cost and am a bit > leery as you can imagine. > > We are looking to replace our aging F5 BigIP LTM's and will be evaluating > these along with the Netscaler and new generation F5 boxes. > > > > > Regards, > > Bryan > > >
