We've a Citrix Netscaler shop, and we've had good luck with them. They're not perfect, by any means, but they've treated us pretty well over the years. Before that we used Cisco Arrowpoints and prior to that F5's. We just upgraded our Netscalers, so we're still happy customers. ;)
Nicholas On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 6:21 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/
