We use f5 big ips. For the most part they have been good. Most of our issues relate to the irule functionality we use for mobile site redirection for a legacy application. It's not redirecting < 5%of the time and we are having issues nailing the cause down.
Sent from my mobile On Nov 12, 2010, at 5:21 PM, Paul Graydon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > We're looking at going down a hardware route for load balancers, and > looking for an HA solution. > > Does anyone have any recommendations or scare stories? I'm not so much > interested in what great and wonderful things the spec sheet says it > does compared to real world behaviour. > > Currently on the list for investigation are F5, Kemp Technologies, > Citrix NetScalers, Foundry (Brocade now?). I've experience with the > latter two, netscalers I was a bit "meh" about, they had a few show > stopping bugs at the time but that could well have changed. Having an > HA pair die one after the other because they didn't like a particular > TCP header makes for a fun morning! The BigIron's I've dealt with all > had a number of little quirks, whilst being thoroughly reliable. > > Paul > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
