RE: Load Balancers

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 09:06:40, Joe Sanchez wrote:
> Mohammed Naviwala; &lt,ccielab_at_groupstudy.com&gt,
> Subject: Re: Load Balancers
>
> It would be for me; beginner to advanced as I like to start as I know
> nothing at all. But all in all having the advanced pieces is all to
> golden; virtual loadbalancers . Long Distance HA clustering. I was
> given a lot of documents by the F5 SE but nonetheless trying to google
> for good docs is difficult. When I'm done with R&S I'll choose between Data Center or Service Provider .
>

I usually start here - http://www.f5.com/products/documentation/deployment-guides/ and then go to https://devcentral.f5.com/ if I'm still having problems. With each of the releases are the general config guides, but I don't find a lot of value in them. I've found the quickest way to configure them is with a single wizard for IIS or HA and then move into bigpipe shell to make any quick edits. Getting some of the starting topics with SNAT and client vs server SSL were some of the more critical areas for me. I had a customer who wanted to sandwich the device between multiple VRF's, so I ended up learning a bit about route domains. I wouldn't classify the F5 as easy, maybe just creating a couple of virtual servers, assigning them a pool to them and doing a basic HTTP get as a check are pretty easy. However, I found banged up HTTP code, client cert authentication, selective SSL redirect, and iRule implementations to take a lot more considersation.

As Haroon was mentioning, Kemps are pretty decent as well. My experience with them is limited to Exchange 2010 CAS Arrays and come recommended from Henrik Walther. They are rather inexpensive and so much better than MS NLB.

-ryan

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