Re: [plug] load balancing hardware

[Dreamer]

Layer 4 switch like Foundry Server Iron is a good toy for load balancing. Here is some of the common features:
 

Command-line and web-based management interfaces
Multiple levels of access control
RADIUS authentication
TACACS/TACACS+ authentication
Access Control Lists (ACLs)
Dynamic configuration
Soft reboot (reboot flash image without resetting the system)
Scheduled system reload
Telnet
Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)
Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP)
Domain Name Server (DNS) resolver
SNMPv2c
Remote Monitoring (RMON)
SNMP alarms and trap log
SyslogD client 2-12
Ping and trace-route facilities
Port mirroring
TCP/UDP port profiles (for globally defining ports)
Health checks
Layer 4 Server Load Balancing Features
Application grouping
Unlimited virtual IP addresses (VIPs)
Support for concurrent SLB and TCS
Multinetting using Network Address Translation (NAT)
IP Filters
Geographically-distributed servers
Symmetric Server Load Balancing

Features Overview
SwitchBack 2-26
Many-to-one TCP/UDP port binding
HTTP redirect 2-28
Graceful server shutdown and force shutdown option
Configurable predictor (load-balancing metric)
Health checks
SNMP traps
Hot Standby Redundancy

Layer 4 Web Switching Features
URL Switching
Cookie Switching
HTTP Header Hashing
SSL Session ID Switching
Layer 4 Transparent Cache Switching Features
Cache Route Optimization (CRO)
Policy-based Cache Failover (CFO)
Stateful TCS
FastCache
Support for concurrent SLB and TCS
Proxy Server Cache Load Balancing
Multinetting using Network Address Translation (NAT)
IP Filters
Graceful server shutdown and force shutdown option
TCP/UDP port profiles (for globally defining ports)
Health checks
SNMP traps
Hot Standby Redundancy
Layer 4 Firewall Load Balancing Feature
Layer 2 Switching Features
MAC switching
Static MAC entries

Price List: (Old but at least gives you an approximate amount )
from the December 1999 issue of Business Communnications
List pricing for the new releases is as follows:

                            ServerIronXL eight-port�$7,995(10/100)
                            ServerIronXL 16-port�$11,495 (10/100)
                            ServerIronXL 24-port�$14,995 (10/100)
                            ServerIronXL/G eight-port (1000BaseSX)
                            BigServerIron software load�$14,995
 
 
 
 

Fritz Mesedilla wrote:

 

we plan to buy a hardware load balancer.

can anyone please suggest with pricing?

thanks.

Fritz Mesedilla
Systems Administrator

Summit Interactive, Inc.
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