Re: Load balancing appliances...

Another vote for pen, which we had running in production at my old job 
for ages with not a problem (in front of Tomcats).

Chris Shenton wrote:
> "Joe R. Lindsay" <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> 
>>Any good experience or advice out there to share?  My goto
>>buddy for this is using F5, but suggested I look at NetScaler,
>>another friend of mine wrote a book on Cisco content switching...
>>So I have 3 vendors I have to look at, but don't have much
>>real world commentary...who out there has that??
> 
> 
> I chose F5 because of previous positive experience with their support,
> and because their software let us examine and base decisions on any
> content on any port (we're doing POP, IMAP, LDAP and a bunch non WWW
> stuff).  It does SSL termination, different boxes and different
> licenses offer different throughputs.  They're not cheap but they work
> well. Foundry and most of the others only allowed very limited
> decision making based on content in transit and were focused on web
> traffic, but they were less expensive.
> 
> For  a lab setting where I was evaluating Tomcat clusters, I used the
> free PEN balancer.  It claims to do SSL termination but I haven't
> tried that feature.  The site gives some examples  for clustering PEN
> boxes to you don't have a single point of failure on the balancer.
> It's nifty and seems to work well.
> 
>   http://siag.nu/pub/pen/