[f-nsp] Replacement for ADX?

Robert Hass robhass at gmail.com
Tue Mar 8 15:40:22 EST 2016


On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 4:55 PM, David Hubbard <dhubbard at dino.hostasaurus.com
> wrote:

> As best I can tell (thanks to Brocade’s site being one of the worst
> designs I’ve encountered), they’ve moved on from hardware load balancers
> like the ADX and want you to deploy traditional servers running software
> solutions?  I’m curious what others are doing going forward?  Have you
> moved to their software solutions and do you like them, especially for a
> high availability setup?  Any other hardware options you’ve moved on to?
>

David,
what traffic level you currently have ? Are you using SSL-offload on ADX ?

Software LB nowdays is not bad idea, as 1 core of Intel CPU can do a lot of
SSL also. Imagine 48 cores monster which will cost less than lowest model
of HW ADX.

Rob
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