Re: F5 and Load Balancing

["Bryan Andrews" <bandrews () valleytechnologiesllc com>]

In my experience with the F5 bigIP I'd suggest saving the money and just
using 1 bigIP unit. It has never failed me and we grew to rely on it for
just about everything.

As an alternative Pound (http://www.apsis.ch/pound/) also worked out
flawlessly and was free. bigIP came with a pretty web based GUI but Pound
also would have performed perfectly for us in most situations.

On 16 Jan 2007 18:09:38 -0000, Ethan_Steiger () polk com
<Ethan_Steiger () polk com> wrote:
> My Network group would like to leverage F5's bigIP products to do load balancing in both the Web tier as well as the 
> application tier of our networks. While I take no issue with that approach, I do have a level of paranoia regarding them 
> using the same physical device. Am I justified in my concern? Should I require them to purchase two additional F5s for this 
> implementation (HA configuration) or should I allow them to use the same F5 and use VLANS to separate them? What is the 
> threat of using the same device? Does the costs justify the added expense?
>
> Lots of questions.
>
> Thanks,
> Ethan
>
> ______________________________
> Ethan Steiger, CISSP=20
> Chief Security Officer
> Polk Global Automotive=20
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>
>
> ethan_steiger () polk com



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