Re : Layer4 and Layer7 TPS

Hello.

To me this kind of "performance reports" or "competitive analysis" are just a bunch of bullshit.

You'll find a lot of other papers on Citrix / Cisco / any vendor web site with a lot of case studies stating they are the best vendor with the best appliance and that the end customer is the happiest customer in the world with his solution :)

Make a POC and setup your own load testing :)

The real L4/L7 performance in a specific configuration varies according to the internal architecture of the product you test. Cisco ACE module distributes the load between two NPs according to the result of a hash function to process load balanced flows, Ace appliance relies on a single Cavium Octeon chipset for the data plane, Citrix uses a purely software based appliance, F5 and Foundry use another architectures (barrel processors in foundry boxes are distributed like NPs in cisco ace module)...

When you perform load testing it's very important to understand how the box you test really works internally, because results (and comparison) will change with the choosen scenario that's why the "performance report" you mention is necessarily biaised :)

regards,

Surya

--- En date de : Jeu 19.11.09, ADC expert <[email protected]> a écrit :

De: ADC expert <[email protected]>
Objet: [load balancing] Layer4 and Layer7 TPS
À: [email protected]
Date: Jeudi 19 Novembre 2009, 19h09

Hi Experts,
   I was looking for a  ADC device that can give best L4 and L7 TPS. After considerable search, I got few things to get clarified before selecting the best.

    F5 has extensive performance report in its website.

    http://www.f5.com/pdf/reports/f5-performance-report.pdf

    I wonder why other vendors did not report in such detail. Even if, there is  no free access.

    I appreciate if some one sends me across cisco, citrix and other vendors performance details.

 
 -Thanks.
    


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