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satish_txt_2254
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Jan 03, 2018

AWS ELB vs F5 SSL TPS calculation

We are running AWS ELB in cloud and now planning to bring it to our datacenter and it is going to be F5.   Now i need to understand ELB first to understand how much request we are processing and T...
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Hello,

 

Reference: https://www.f5.com/pdf/products/big-ip-platforms-datasheet.pdf

 

  • Based on first observation, I'd say i5800

800K SSL TPS is a definite overkill. I assume your apps are HTTP1.1 that can re-use same TCP and SSL session for multiple L7 requests. Can you also paste "EstimatedALBNewConnectionCount"? Currently it's greyed out in your upper graph.

 

That lower graph shows you "L7 Requests per second" that you can refer to in hardware datasheet. Graph shows a peak of 800K but you definitely need more to cover peak activity months/hours of the year. You also need some room for growth and not spend dollars for hardware that you outgrow in 1 year. Assume 1.6M L7 requests your requirement when making a decision.

 

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satish_txt_2254
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Jan 05, 2018

Totally agreed with your answer here, i am planning to get F5 10200v so handle future growth too. we are only handling very small API calls, its very small piece of data every client makes, our application isn't browsable, all it does make API call and get xml data back.

 

Any specific suggestion for tuning?