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Dec 11, 2012

F5 LTM HTTP Preformance

we were doing perfomance test using test traffic to both F5 ( new load balancer ) & Cisco( old load balancer ) setup before complete migration .

 

we found that with F5 maximum HTTP download is 3 Mega , while Through Cisco is 5 Mega .

 

waht can i adjust / Check on F5 ?

 

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    A few basic questions about your test methodology...

     

    - What platform are you testing?

     

    - What test tool are you using and how many simultaneous connections is it opening?

     

    - What does your virtual server configuration look like?

     

    - What is the CPU usage on the LTM during the test?

     

    - Is anything logged to /var/log/ltm during the test?

     

     

    3Mbps is slower than any performance result I have ever seen other than during horribly broken tests. The only time I could see this being an accurate result might be when the test tool is opening only a single connection during the test, and you are using a virtual server profile meant to optimize features over performance. (Though even then the key part would be 'single connection' rather than the profile used on the virtual server.)

     

     

     

    --jesse