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    Hardware Load Balancer recommendation

    Hello guys,

    we have client who want Hardware unit for Load Balancer for colo, unit must be $0-2000 range (that's his budget) and would like to recommend something that is proven and working from your experiance. It can also be switch + LB unit (in once) as long it's doin the job. Other options also welcome.

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    How much bandwidth does it need to push?

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    You also need to take into account the connections and requests/second. There are huge price differences in devices, but also huge performance differences.
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    If you need cheap.... you could always look at a Vyatta Appliance.

    http://www.vyatta.com/downloads/docu...f_R6.2_v01.pdf
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    sorry about that, for some reason I did not type that as well in first post. Curently, they ar doin around 110-120 Mbit at peak hours, and around 12.000-13.000 connections

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    Easy solution would be to use keepalived. I am pushing ~250mbit with Dell R410's and intel nics

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    haproxy+keepalived+sslproxy (if needed)?
    Does in a 2 server configuration 500Mbit+/100k connections p. sec with automatic failover.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Exhar View Post
    Easy solution would be to use keepalived. I am pushing ~250mbit with Dell R410's and intel nics
    Not by itself.

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    I've not used Kemp but it's probably what I'd suggest here. $2000 is really low for this kind of setup. You'll only get one for sure, and usually load balancers are deployed as HA pairs.

    Depending on what you need to do you may be able to do it with Varnish?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jroc View Post
    Not by itself.
    What do you mean?

    I am running keepalived with ipvs, if thats what you mean.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Exhar View Post
    What do you mean?

    I am running keepalived with ipvs, if thats what you mean.
    Yes exactly, keepalived itself its not the loadbalancer.

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    Get two Dell R210 servers and run LVS + Keepalived or linux-HA and you are way under $2k.

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