Let me give you first hand experience with the BIG-IP device, save yourself the headache and don't go this route. We did this for aggregation of 3 - ISP links, after several sets of consultants (F5 experts) we still don't have a 100% working solution and it's been a year now. Service after the sale has been less than stellar, I've had a ticket open for almost a year now.... They probably do get server load balancing but, not WAN's.....add Branch VPN's to the mix and you'll start drinking whiskey neat and in large quantities...
________________________________________ From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 9:23 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: BIG IP Im looking for some global failover devices. These are the only guys I know but in reading through their specs, besides being 20k, I didn't truly see what was going to be required. Basically I have 3 sites a primary and 2 failover locations (the company is split into two divisions each one fails over to another locale) I would like to be able to failover automatically to both. They are in the same public ip subnet but just need routing to different areas. I guess the overall question is what is required on our end to make this scenario work, and is there something other than big ip that could accomplish this successfully that I can research. At one of my colo's I see a bunch of Coyote Points but those seem to be load balancers not really wan failover type products. I was also looking at global dns providers which apparently offer this kind of masking service but I saw pricing from 1k-1.5k/month which doesn't make a lot of sense either. Thanks ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
