Load Balancing Blue Coat Wan Opt solution for Datacentre

Hi Tinman,

 

I spoke to one of my colleagues had something like this set up for several companies. He doesn't single out a specific WAN vendor but his his only recommendation is to use an active/passive configuration and avoid trying to load balance on optimization appliance. The primary reason is that WAN optimization appliance tend to continually analyze the traffic itself to make themselves as efficient as possible. Thus if the F5 load balance or any load balancer can obfuscate data that the WAN Optimized Appliance may rely on to be efficient. He also mentioned not to optimize the traffic from the LTM perspective - much akin to not running 2 Desktop/laptop firewall applications on the same system.

 

 

I hope this helps

 

Bhattman