Comments on: Customers results… http://blog.loadbalancer.org/customers-results/ When a single point of failure is not an option Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:17:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Malcolm Turnbull http://blog.loadbalancer.org/customers-results/comment-page-1/#comment-361 Malcolm Turnbull Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:26:29 +0000 http://www.loadbalancer.org/blog/?p=59#comment-361 I guess one of the points is that test results are completely arbitrary :-). Customers always have their own set of requirements which may or may not correlate with what the vendor is trying to sell. You may also be interested to know that the customer was given a £20,000 discount on the units they finally chose... As for one test back end, I don't see the problem with that as the SSL is terminated on the load balancer and therefore a single web server could easily handle 4500 requests in HTTP mode. If you wanted to do a large HTTP test then you'd probably want an avalanche/reflector set up. Mind you how many customers do you know who are really doing more than 300 TPS :-). I also quite like the CAI Webmux and they got slated... Alas the customer is always right, even if they are wrong. I guess one of the points is that test results are completely arbitrary :-). Customers always have their own set of requirements which may or may not correlate with what the vendor is trying to sell.

You may also be interested to know that the customer was given a £20,000 discount on the units they finally chose…

As for one test back end, I don’t see the problem with that as the SSL is terminated on the load balancer and therefore a single web server could easily handle 4500 requests in HTTP mode. If you wanted to do a large HTTP test then you’d probably want an avalanche/reflector set up.

Mind you how many customers do you know who are really doing more than 300 TPS :-).

I also quite like the CAI Webmux and they got slated… Alas the customer is always right, even if they are wrong.

]]> By: Greg http://blog.loadbalancer.org/customers-results/comment-page-1/#comment-360 Greg Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:17:36 +0000 http://www.loadbalancer.org/blog/?p=59#comment-360 Hi, I know what customer prospect performed this testing and as such I know the testing method used. Testing Enterprise network appliances can be difficult. Many end user struggle to create realistic environments. In this case the end user used 1 web server and 1 injector (FYI we have 30+ servers in our stress test environment) In my opinion that test method was not valid. I feel that it would be more appropriate to publish some information on the testing method as anyone can make up a number. I am also interest in seeing how they tested 4500 SSL TPS on 1 server! Hi, I know what customer prospect performed this testing and as such I know the testing method used. Testing Enterprise network appliances can be difficult. Many end user struggle to create realistic environments. In this case the end user used 1 web server and 1 injector (FYI we have 30+ servers in our stress test environment) In my opinion that test method was not valid. I feel that it would be more appropriate to publish some information on the testing method as anyone can make up a number. I am also interest in seeing how they tested 4500 SSL TPS on 1 server!

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