Thanks Arie... a quick look at the pricing makes this option prohibitive ... nice option though...;) If this was for a large scale rollout then the ACE would be ideal....
This is pretty much just for two servers which are mirrored/redundant to one another - looks like doing it on the server level is going to be best option or go with something like Barracuda's load balancer appliance (can get a pair of them redundant for under $10k) but we like to standardize on Cisco as much as possible... Thanks Arie and everyone for your input as usual.... Paul -----Original Message----- From: Arie Vayner (avayner) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 12:30 PM To: Robert Blayzor; Paul Stewart Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: [c-nsp] SLB Question Paul, I recommend that you look at the ACE module. It's the latest and greatest HW based SLB solution (a blade on the 6500): http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6906/index.html If you really need to be able to provide access to the VIP from the same L2 domain where the real servers are located, I would recommend moving to dispatched mode. Just disable "nat server", and configure the VIP as a loopback interface on the real servers (easily done on any OS). This would allow the servers to use the VIP as a source, so both remote and local clients would be able to access the VIP on the SLB instance, but the return traffic would not require a translation back... Arie -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Blayzor Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 19:02 PM To: Paul Stewart Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [c-nsp] SLB Question Paul Stewart wrote: > So, what's a good hardware solution (bearing in mind that we can still > do this in software on the servers)?? Cisco used to make load > balancing hardware at one time but I don't think they are involved > with that any longer?? Open to hardware suggestions.. preferably > something that works transparently as a bridge and can work as a pair > of hardware devices for fault tolerance within the hardware? Cisco still makes some of the CSS line, but not sure that fits the bill. I'd actually take a look at the Foundry ServerIrons. If you want a good laugh, the Foundry ServerIrons are more IOS like than Cisco's own CSS's. ;-) The ServerIrons are solid and are quite reasonably priced... vs what's left in the CSS line. (I believe the CSS 11501's are EoSale). -Robert _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
