My company recently purchased a serverironxl loadbalancer (16 ports with 1 gigabit fiber port) we attached 16 webservers to the device and setup the virtual and real servers appropriately everything was running fine with the servers running stand alone no loadbalancing. Once we changed dns to use the loadbalanced ips the cpu went to 99% and download speeds decreased significantly. It was pushing about 700 mbits before loadbalancing was turned on after we started using the load balancing traffic went down 30%, there are a few hundred websites running on all these servers.
So im wondering if this is just to much for the device to handle? I would think it should not be a problem for it but im no expert. we have another server iron pushing over 780 mbits but with fewer sites behind it. So could it be the large number of sites overwhelming the device? its running firmware ver Version 07.3.05T12 thanks in advance for any help dave
