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Janna_40494
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May 18, 2009

Recommendations on number of apps to run through F5 pair

I was curious if there were any benchmarks or recommendations that F5 had, as far as, how many applications one should run through an F5 pair (6400's). I'm assuming the recommendations probably depen...
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dennypayne
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May 18, 2009
There's no practical limit on the number of applications - as you said, the limiting factors are primarily throughput and the number of connections, and what platform you have.

 

 

I believe the correct numbers for a 6400 are:

 

 

44Gb/s switch capacity (layer 2)

 

220000 Layer 4 requests/sec

 

75000 Layer 7 requests/sec

 

3.5Gb/s max throughput

 

8 million max concurrent connections

 

20000 max SSL transactions per second (using SSL offloading)

 

 

These numbers go much higher on the newer platforms.

 

 

Denny