Experiences with A10 AX series Load Balancers?

Thu Mar 25 03:06:39 UTC 2010

the a10s actually do pretty good at relatively high load levels as well, and
they do have an asic(multiple), fyi..

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Justin Horstman
<jhorstman at adknowledge.com>wrote:

> The boxes do alright at low load levels. They do not have an asic tech like
> the F5s so choke on large amounts of traffic. Management is a bit immature
> and you will find yourself having to use the CLI and the Gui to accomplish
> most advanced tasks.
>
> When we put them head to head A10 AX3200 vs F5 6400 ltm (note: 6400 was
> what we were looking to replace)
>
> Test:
> 1000 concurrent users from Gomez's Networks Loadtesting platform hitting as
> fast as the requests would close, going through our standard vip config on
> the f5, and the A10 engineering teams 3 best efforts  to beat that config
> that balanced between two Identical Dell 1950 servers serving  a php page
> that responded with a random number (to avoid caching). The 6400 we used was
> in production at the time, and was older so we were expecting to get blown
> away, see the results here:
>
> F5 - Peaked 160k completed transactions a minute sustained for 10 minutes,
> 0 errors, 112ms average transaction response time
> A10 - Held 60k completed transactions a minute sustained for 10 minutes, 0
> errors, 360ms average transaction response time
>
> If anyone is interested in the graphs I think I can still pull them out of
> gomez. Though notable that this was all done a year ago, so things might be
> different now.
>
> ~J
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Welch, Bryan [mailto:Bryan.Welch at arrisi.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 8:35 PM
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Experiences with A10 AX series Load Balancers?
>
> Does anyone have any experiences good/bad/indifferent with this company and
> their products?  They claim 2x the performance at ½ the cost and am a bit
> leery as you can imagine.
>
> We are looking to replace our aging F5 BigIP LTM's and will be evaluating
> these along with the Netscaler and new generation F5 boxes.
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> Regards,
>
> Bryan
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