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Originally Posted by melipla  We've had very good success with F5 & the load balancing features they offer for several of our web based applications, could that be a possible solution? |
We use F5's for our web-based applications, but not with any geographic diversity. If I'm missing features of the F5's that I should be using, I'd love to hear about them.
Since our primary facility is near the airport, we use the example of a plane crash. If a plane crash took out one building, (or took out power to the building, or cut off access to the building), could we run out of the other?
If we brought circuits to our 150+ sites into the other building, we could, but it would be a manual process with a lot of room for human error. We would have to redo the anti-spoofing rules (not a big deal with groups), and redo the routes (which could be a problem if only some of the primary facility was nonfunctional).
With OSPF, I can design a network that's very fault tolerant, and giving at most a moment's interruption of services that requires minimal administration to keep functional. Without OSPF, I'm left to writing and maintaining scripts to do what should happen automatically (and, although I pride myself on my accuracy, also opens the door to human error).