On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Paul Brown wrote:
> > Our organization is planning to purchase 10 rack mount systems which will
> > primarily be used to server web pages and applications. Our goal is to
> > find a clustering technology that will deliver in order of priority
> > 1) high availability/failover 2) load balancing 3) effective CPU
> > utilization.
>
> What you may want to look into is F5 Labs BigIP. That is the kind of
> technology that goes wire speed. It's expensive but it's worth it.
>
> Paul
>
We've had really good luck with F5 Lab's BigIP boxes and their
3DNS boxes, once they were up and running :-)
We bought two of each, one of them arrived DOA with a dead
powersupply, and the other was so badly misconfigured by the F5 tech, that
I had to spend about 5 hours on the phone with F5, editing their config
files on the box by hand, to get it working correctly.
Both those products run on highly tweaked BSDi, and me being alot
more comfortable with System V-style Unixes, kept looking in all the wrong
places for things :-)
Since then however, they've been running very smoothly. I've heard
rumors that they're going to release versions of their products that run
on Linux kernels. We'll see about that.
There's alot of other competing products that we checked out
before going with F5, like the Cisco Local Director, Resonate, etc.. In
the end I think it was probably the glowing red F5 bubbles on the front of
the machines that won us over, makes the server vault light up like a
Christmas tree. :-)
Toby A. Rider
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