John Oliver wrote:
That's the command for Cisco routers and switches. But this CSS is very
un-Ciscolike.
There may be a good reason why not but: Just use Linux Virtual Server if
you need load balancing. RHEL/CentOS comes with a tool called Piranha
for setting it up and great documentation at:
http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Virtual_Server_Administration/index.html
I JUST went through this last month and had the two boxes load balancing
traffic with full redundancy and server health checks in a day. It is in
production now.
I have two CSS boxes from the 11500 series and next weekend I am going
to be moving our last cluster from behind the CSS to a pair of LVS boxes
(already in production for a few weeks, working great, just need to
repoint this cluster to them) because nobody around here knows how to
use the CSS devices. The ones we have are also getting rather old. I'm
not sure if we even have a support contract on them anymore.
I recommended against buying these things 5 years ago when I was
consulting for this outfit and they went ahead and did it anyway on the
theory that spending $120k on all of the hardware and consulting to get
them going was much better than my proposed $12k (my consulting time and
hardware) to accomplish the same thing on a platform that people here
were already familiar with. Although the CSS has provided very reliable
service for the past 5 years they are scared to death to touch anything
because nobody left around knows how to configure it and the previous
outfit that configured it is no longer available to help.
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