Thanks Murali, I think they are questions that need some answers, otherwise we're just blindly guessing. The virtual routers don't give any performance information out so we can't monitor them directly to see when a NetScaler might be appropriate.
Fine-tuning capacity is ok, but we don't have a number to start with. Paul Angus Consultant paul.an...@shapeblue.com www.shapeblue.com -----Original Message----- From: Murali Reddy [mailto:murali.re...@citrix.com] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 11:02 AM To: cloudstack-us...@incubator.apache.org; cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: NetScaler Best Practices There isn't a best practice document. At this point I doubt if there could be clear recommendation when a customer should move from virtual router to NetScaler. Logically any customer that want high throughput or think software load balancer in virtual router will not fit their needs could consider a network offering that gives NetScaler as LB. As CloudStack begins to have deeper integration (e.g. SSL termination) in upcoming releases with external devices their value add becomes more evident. There is no recommendation for the 'capacity' as well. This value could depend on the throughput/pps a particular VPX/MPX/SDX device can handle or licensed for. There is no inherent notion of tenant in the NetScaler devices (at least with MPX, VPX) based on which you can reserve the resources (CPU cores, throughput etc) or provide QoS guarantees. So CloudStack currently uses simple hueristic of number of tenants a device can be used as capacity of the device. This value is cloud admin configured and editable so he can fine tune what capacity should be. On 06/06/12 2:07 PM, "Paul Angus" <paul.an...@shapeblue.com> wrote: >Hi, > >I'm looking for best practices with respect to: > >a. when a client should be considering using a NetScaler for load >balancing rather than the virtual router b. the capacity setting for >any given NetScaler model. > >I understand that it depends on the type of load that the virtual >router or NetScaler would experience, but we need to have some >guidelines as a starting point. > > >Paul Angus >Consultant >ShapeBlue > > >paul.an...@shapeblue.com >www.shapeblue.com > >ShapeBlue provides a range of strategic and technical consulting and >implementation services to help IT Service Providers and Enterprises to >build a true IaaS compute cloud. ShapeBlue¹s expertise, combined with >CloudStack technology, allows IT Service Providers and Enterprises to >deliver true, utility based, IaaS to the customer or end-user. > >________________________________ > >This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are >intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. >Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do >not necessarily represent those of Shape Blue Ltd. If you are not the >intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action >based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact >the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. Shape >Blue Ltd is a company incorporated in England & Wales. > ShapeBlue provides a range of strategic and technical consulting and implementation services to help IT Service Providers and Enterprises to build a true IaaS compute cloud. ShapeBlue’s expertise, combined with CloudStack technology, allows IT Service Providers and Enterprises to deliver true, utility based, IaaS to the customer or end-user. ________________________________ This email and any attachments to it may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Shape Blue Ltd. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, you must neither take any action based upon its contents, nor copy or show it to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. Shape Blue Ltd is a company incorporated in England & Wales.
