BIG-IP HA+ redundant failover pair w/ BIGIP Consulting 4 fast ethernet ports & free consulting services. Start Price USD 3,999.00 Current Price USD 3,999.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, November 02, 2008 End Time Tuesday, December 02, 2008 Location Boise, ID See more about 'BIG-IP HA+ redundant failover pair w/ BIGIP Consulting' Description (View our perfect feedback and bid with confidence) F5 Networks BIG-IP HA+ Redundant PAIR of used BIGIP Load Balancers running version 4.2.10. Each unit has 700Mhz and 512 RAM with 4x100MB ethernet ports. You will get 2 units setup as a redundant pair. Includes 5 free hours of our BIGIP consulting via phone and email to help you quickly deploy your used load balancing solution. (Consulting hours are good for 90 days from closing bid date, for the winning bid)Valid Licenses and guaranteed working! We have helped many clients for over the last 10 years increase web application uptime and availability by deploying a cost-effective complete used BIGIP solution from Idanet.  With Idanet you don't just get used hardware, but also the expertise you need to help you get deployed quickly.  Our clients rave about our service.  References are available, so just email us and would we be happy to tell you more. Free FedEx Ground shipping when Buy-it-Now is used.  Specifications:• Model D25 • 700MHz/ 512MB RAM• Fully authorized - v4.2.10• 4 x 10/100 Ports Features after version 4.0:•HTTP Keep-Alives •HTTP Redirect pool property •Bridging and Layer 2 forwarding •Load balance any IP protocol •Link aggregation and fail-over •On-the-fly content converter •SNAT automap feature Features after version 4.1.1:•SSL-to-server support •Startup enhancements •Health monitor enhancements •Spanning tree protocol support •Web-based Configuration utility enhancements With 5 free hours of our BIGIP consulting, you have the peace-of-mind to know you will have expert help you need to get deployed quickly!  When you combine that with Idanet 90 day hardware parts and labor warranty, you have a complete used solution for an affordable price!  Also, if you use buy-it-now, you will get Free FedEx ground Shipping! This redundant setup comes with the failover cable as well. This used F5 Networks BIGIP Solution is great for http and https load balancing. They have excellent persistence capabilities (to handle sessions) as well as several modes of load balancing like predictive, observed, least connections, and plain old round robin. Additionally, you can setup the BIGIP to do email notification from the BIGIP for when a node goes down, a failover to the standby BIGIP occurs, etc.These units are running great!  We have the root password and the manuals are available in .pdf format.Vlans, Tagging, Trunking, and Bridging are not available in pre-4.2. Unless you stick with at least version 4.2 you are missing out!Payment via Cashier's Check, Money Order or company check.  If paying by company check, check must clear first. Winner to get free FedEx ground shipping and Liquid Foam Packaging to anywhere in the continuous 48 states. (Other locations additional shipping charges may apply.  Please contact us for details). Payment via Paypal will be accepted if the account is a verified address and we will only ship to that address (Otherwise Paypal refuses to guarantee the funds.)  We also accept payment via company check.  Unit will be guaranteed not DOA. All manuals will be provided and the root password will be included.   Also, don't forget that we will help you deploy your solution with upto 10 free hours of BIGIP consulting good for 90 days from the purchase date. Idanet also includes a 90 day hardware parts and labor warranty.  If you should have any hardware problems for 90 days from the date of purchase, we will either repair or replace the unit at no cost! (We will pay for return ground shipping.  The customer must pay for shipping to us). If you have any questions, please contact us and we will be happy to answer your pre-sale technical questions:  idanetsupport@gmail.com.  BIG-IP® Controller (from F5's website - www.f5.com) Innovative traffic management, application-aware content switching, local and global load balancing in a single appliance The award-winning BIG-IP® HA+ Controller brings standard layer 2-3 networking and innovative layer 4-7 traffic management together to significantly increase existing web server and network capacities. BIG-IP cost-effectively scales enterprise, managed services, and e-Business applications while delivering on the promise of 99.999% uptime. And the combined best-of-class local and wide area traffic management capability reduces rack space, power consumption, and simplifies management. Intelligence for 99.999% Uptime Reliable Superior Return on Investment Superior Load Balancing and Traffic Management Superior Management and Configuration Advanced Security BIG-IP HA+ Specifications Download this document in PDF format (may not work in some versions of Acrobat). Innovative Features and Benefits: Highest performing local load balancing for servers, caches, firewalls, VPN gateways, terminal servers, other specialized devices Available award-winning wide area load balancing and local area load balancing in a single appliance OneConnect™ Content Switching reduces bandwidth costs and server overhead by up to 20%* while reducing deployment costs and increasing your ROI 99.999% uptime for both Internet and Intranet applications using Health Monitors, HTTP redirect, Application Performance Monitoring, 802.3ad link aggregation, and Dynamic Server Activation Application Aware Network -- allows applications to directly control network traffic by preemptively avoiding application failures through Application Performance Monitoring and iControl Tightly integrated with a wide area load balancer, content deployment appliance and cache appliance for comprehensive Internet traffic and content management SSL processing and integrated load balancing in a single appliance Load Balancing Features and Benefits: Static and Dynamic load balancing for diverse server platforms and applications Active/Active Controller feature for added performance, scalability, reliability, and flexibility Full stateful session failover from active to backup or active to active BIG-IP Controller Multiple modes of persistence AnyIP Load Balancing for load balancing nearly all IP-based traffic Firewall-like hardened and secure device to resist common attacks Smart Content Determination to route requests for content to appropriate devices Content Affinity for load balancing cache servers Full TCP/IP protocol support, including UDP Bi-directional Secure Network Address Translation (SNAT) 2GB Memory limit - highest capacity in the industry Real-time performance monitoring and statistics Easy to install and manage Configuration wizards minimize configuration errors * J. Mogul, The Case for Persistent-Connection HTTP. Proc. ACM SIGCOMM'95, August 1995. Intelligence for 99.999% Uptime Leading-edge performance and innovation in load balancing is critical as Internet business use grows exponentially, and new types of data and applications pose increasingly complex traffic and content management challenges. BIG-IP delivers. Beyond The SwitchBIG-IP is the only load balancer that can receive information directly from application servers (Windows 2000, Real Server, other SNMP systems) to be used in a load-balancing mode called Dynamic Ratio (patent pending). Additionally, unlike competing products, designed to handle routine switching functions such as routing requests for services (HTTP, FTP, SSL and others) to specific servers, BIG-IP is capable of reading detailed information in a request header (such as the type of content requested and the IP address of the sender) and using that information to route the request to a server best able to fulfill it. The Fastest Layer 7 PerformanceThanks to F5's proprietary FastFlow architecture, BIG-IP HA+ delivers Layer 7 performance that is three to four times faster than competing products from Cisco Systems (Arrowpoint) and Nortel Networks (Alteon).** Fast Layer 7 functionality provides network managers a cost-effective way to ensure that users will have a productive and trouble-free experience each time they transact business over the Internet or corporate Intranet. **www.tolly.com - reference report #200204 Health MonitorsApplications and servers of any kind can and do fail. But your customers, partners, and users need never know. Health monitors are a collection of predefined scripts for testing the health and availability of the servers and applications that comprise your web system. Use the configuration wizards in the web interface to customize scripts. Use the Health Monitors to check if a server is responding to WEB, FTP, LDAP, or other request - or to verify that an application (web, database, credit card verification, etc.) is operating properly before traffic is sent to that server. Reliable To leading enterprises and their business-critical applications, web site uptime is absolutely critical. BIG-IP helps achieve near-perfect reliability and increase the return on investment for their network infrastructure. Dynamic Server ActivationBIG-IP HA+ lets you assign priority levels to servers in a group. If a certain number of higher priority servers ever fails in the group, a lower priority group will automatically be added to handle the load - ensuring that your site and applications are always on-line. HTTP RedirectBIG-IP HA+ further enhances reliability by allowing the automatic redirection of traffic to a different server or site should a single server or all servers fail. Fault ToleranceBIG-IP HA+ provides fault-tolerance by eliminating single points of failure. By distributing end user requests across a group of servers, caches, firewalls, and other devices, BIG-IP ensures that content and applications are always available. Dual controllers provide additional fault tolerance with automatic fail-over in less than a second. -Session State MirroringRedundant BIG-IP HA+ Controllers provide seamless failover protection of connections from an active BIG-IP to a standby controller. - Active/Active ModeAllows both controllers to simultaneously manage traffic for different virtual addresses. In the unlikely event of a failure on one of the controllers, the remaining active controller assumes the virtual servers of the failed machine. - Network Based FailoverThis can be used in addition to or in place of hardwired failover, and allows a pair of redundant controllers to be physically separated for enhanced manageability and reliability. - Hardware Based FailoverEvery BIG-IP HA+ Controller includes a hardwired failover capability. This includes one watchdog timer card per BIG-IP and a fail-safe cable that ensures sub-second response. Link Aggregation/FailoverBIG-IP HA+ supports industry standard 802.3ad for link aggregation, ensuring that maximum throughput can be attained and that high reliability and availability are built into your system at every point. Superior Return on Investment Doing more with less is everything these days. BIG-IP reduces the need for increasingly larger and more expensive servers to accommodate increases in network traffic. It enables many inexpensive servers to function as a single, virtual server. And its intelligent features help customers reduce their total cost of ownership for their web infrastructure. OneConnect™ Content Switching OneConnect eliminates the need for clients to open up a separate TCP connection for each of the objects that make up a Web page -- speeding page-load performance and reducing bandwidth requirements by up to 20 percent. With OneConnect, the server and network can do more work and handle more traffic, without adding more equipment. Client Aggregation Client Aggregation takes requests from separate users and consolidates them on BIG-IP. Consolidated traffic is then sent to appropriate web servers - minimizing the number of connections to the server and enabling more efficient use of existing servers and network resources. 3-DNS Global Load Balancing Add the industry's most respected global load balancer to BIG-IP HA+ for combined server load balancing and global load balancing in a single box that simplifies management, reduces rack space requirements and lowers power consumption. Application Aware Networks for Enterprise, Managed Services, and e-Business Web applications respond to requests differently at any given time. Traditionally, load balancing has attempted to predict the ability of the server to handle the next user's request. With BIG-IP Application Performance Monitoring and iControl™, applications now have more input on how traffic is managed, since BIG-IP HA+ can take input from applications and take preemptive measures to avoid system failures. "Akamaization" On-The-FlyCustomers using Akamai's Free Flow service can use BIG-IP HA+ to "Akamaize" their content without having to rewrite all of their HTML code - saving countless hours of development time for dynamically updated sites, or sites with heavy amounts of content. Superior Load Balancing and Traffic Management BIG-IP ensures that your mission-critical Internet-based servers and other devices are continuously available and performing reliably - with load balancing capabilities that first set the standard for intelligent traffic management - and continue to do so. Multiple Load Balancing Methods BIG-IP HA+ provides a comprehensive choice of load balancing algorithms, as well as multiple modes for different Virtual Server groups: Static ModesRound Robin Ratio Dynamic ModesLeast Connections Fastest Observed PredictiveDynamic Ratio (Patent Pending) Control For Servers, Devices and ContentBIG-IP HA+ lets you easily control and manage multiple servers, applications and network devices from a central location. With the BIG-IP, you can effortlessly balance the following: ApplicationsCitrix Terminal ServerLotus/Domino Notes servers Microsoft Application Center 2000Microsoft Commerce ServerMicrosoft Exchange Microsoft Windows Terminal ServerOracle 9i Application ServersRealNetworks RealSystem ServersSun iPlanet Servers Network DevicesInternet serversFirewallsRoutersCache serversProxy serversMultimedia serversVPN, NFS and LDAP servers…and others IP ProtocolsWeb (http)FTPUDPDNSStreaming Audio/VideoE-MailLDAPTCP SSL…and others SSL Processing/Integrated Load BalancingBIG-IP HA+ combines fast SSL (Secure Socket Layer) processing with intelligent traffic management and load balancing - giving e-Businesses SSL acceleration and secure connections with feature-rich intelligent traffic and content control. It's the single-source solution for dramatically improving the performance of your servers while providing security, speed and traffic management during business-critical online transactions. Quality of Service and Type-of-Service SupportDifferentiation in service levels can set your web system or service offering apart from your competition. BIG-IP further enhances web site differentiation by supporting the Quality-of-Service (QOS) and Type-of-Service (TOS) standard. With this your site can recognize and provide differing levels of service. BIG-IP HA+ can direct traffic with different policies that have been identified by the policy manager. These priorities can then be sent to the appropriate resources. In the reverse, BIG-IP can set the priority identifier on the traffic from specific web resources. The policy manager then can manage this traffic. In either case, your business resources can be appropriately matched to your business requirements. nPathTM PerformanceBIG-IP HA+ includes an optional mode called nPath. This mode allows servers to bypass BIG-IP when returning traffic back to the client. A business involved in downloading streaming media, for example, can choose to engage this functionality for even faster return responses on bandwidth intensive, media-rich traffic. ISP Load BalancingEnterprise network environments provision multiple ISPs to build redundancy into all systems, including Internet connectivity. BIG-IP HA+ can load balance and maintain network connectivity along multiple ISP paths, ensuring high availability and reliability in any deployment. The Industry's Richest Set of Persistence FeaturesThe BIG-IP HA+ offers a wide variety of persistence capabilities to keep users connected to the right server with the right information. Persistence modes include: Source - a particular user's traffic destined for a specific Virtual Server will go to the same server as long as the persistence timer has not expired. Server - a particular user's traffic will go to the same server regardless of the Virtual Server that is being used unless the persistence timer expires.Shopping Cart Persistence - persists on any port, with the same Virtual Server and only switches servers if the Virtual Server changes.SSL - BIG-IP HA+ maintains session state for SSL connections based on session I.D., therefore not concentrating requests from the same IP on one server. Cookie - Uses cookie information stored by a client to direct the client connection to the appropriate server. Content Affinity - BIG-IP HA+ automatically assigns and remembers where data is stored across cache arrays, eliminating frivolous duplication of content, optimizing cache memory and increasing the probability of a cache hit. Virtual Server- a particular user's traffic destined for a specific Virtual Server will go to the same server regardless of the port that is being used unless the persistence timer expires, or the server becomes unavailable (in this case, BIG-IP HA+ sends the connections to an available server for that Virtual Server). Superior Management and Configuration BIG-IP consists of F5's proprietary software on a pre-configured, industry-standard hardware platform - an appliance that doesn't require the time-intensive installation of software on your servers. It enables routine maintenance or upgrades of servers without disrupting service to the end user. And since it can be used with multiple heterogeneous hardware platforms, it allows businesses to protect their investments in their legacy hardware installations -- as well as integrate future hardware investments. Secure Management Web-based configuration tool that uses SSL and Access Control Lists to provide secure real-time configuration. BIG-IP command line interface via F-Secure SSH client supports remote encrypted login and file transfer from most commercial UNIX platforms, Windows 95, NT and Mac operating systems. BIG-IP command line interface via a VGA or serial console with command history. Simplified ManagementBIG-IP HA+ centralizes the management of server resources and devices such as firewalls, proxy and caches. End users are directed to a single virtual address, easing network administration and maintenance. Easy InstallationBIG-IP HA+ can be installed on almost any type of network. There are no internal or external interface limitations; there are just ports with features assigned. This gives the network manager more flexibility to install BIG-IP into the network, and more flexibility to easily access features on any port. Enhanced GUIBIG-IP HA+ includes an intuitive and easy to use web-based GUI. Common configuration tasks are logically grouped, simplifying configuration and management while reducing the cost of implementation and ongoing maintenance of your infrastructure. BridgingBIG-IP HA+ bridges packets between interfaces within the same VLAN, easing configuration and deployment of transparent devices like caches and firewalls while allowing BIG-IP to manage specialized traffic non-obtrusively and ignore the rest. Configuration WizardsBIG-IP HA+ includes configuration wizards to guide administrators in configuring BIG-IP for most common tasks, making installation and implementation easier. Wizards include load balancing, e-commerce, Active/Active, virtual server and rules configuration. VLANs and Tagged VLANsVLANs (virtual LANs) allow networks to be administratively divided into numerous separate LANs. BIG-IP HA+ supports the familiar VLAN architecture utilized by most modern switches, providing greater flexibility and ease in making network topology changes. "Easy-To-Replace Cisco" FeatureWith BIG-IP, traffic can cross single subnet networks without the need to reconfigure servers' IP addresses; BIG-IP will pass traffic as a standard bridge. This allows BIG-IP to be dropped into any network without costly changes - making the replacement of legacy load balancers, such as Cisco Local Director, a snap. Cache Manageability -Smart Content DeterminationBIG-IP HA+ intelligently determines whether content is cacheable or not, then intelligently directing only the correct content to the cache. -Hot Content Load BalancingExtremely popular web objects deserve special treatment. BIG-IP HA+ identifies this "hot content" and allows it to reside on a designated group of caches. -Differentiated ServicesBIG-IP HA+ provides maximum flexibility and control by allowing you to create groups of caches dedicated for specific functions, enabling personalized services for unique customers. Advanced Security The BIG-IP HA+ has a number of inherent security features designed to protect against common attacks and provide added protection for your servers and network devices. BIG-IP ships, by default, in a very secure mode with these features: Network Address Translation (NAT) - BIG-IP HA+ uses NAT to do the following: Can map well known ports to any ports on the servers (Port-mapping):Well-known ports such as 80, 443, 20, 21 can be mapped to any port number on the actual servers. This provides greater security by making it difficult for intruders to identify what services are running on which port. Ability to use non-publicly routed addresses for servers Using BIG-IP, Internet routable IP addresses can be saved, thus reducing consumption of IP addresses Tight control of allowing and denying ports on Virtual IP The BIG-IP HA+ is a default deny device that resists common attacks. BIG-IP: Uses Packet filtering to limit or deny access to and from Internet sites based on monitoring the traffic source, destination or port Uses Secure Remote administration based on secure shell (SSH) for command line or SSL for browser-based management Can reap idle connections (thwarts Denial of Service attacks) Can perform source route tracing (thwarts IP spoofing) Resists unacknowledged SYN without ACK buffers (thwarts SYN floods) Thwarts teardrop and land attacks Protects itself and servers from ICMP attack Does not run SMTPd, FTPd,Telnetd, or any other attackable daemons Uses a security tool that identifies any services and ports that receive illegal access attempts Frequency: amount of attempts Port: what port(s) were hit IP Address: the source IP address of attacker Interface Security and FlexibilityYou can control access to the BIG-IP on any interface. By default, BIG-IP HA+ denies access unless types of specific traffic are enabled. This allows BIG-IP to be a good addition to a site's overall security. Client Certificate CheckSSL is quickly becoming the standard for securing applications. BIG-IP HA+ enabled with SSL capabilities enhances your control of SSL through SSL Certificate Checking - allowing you to maintain a list of authorized Certificate Authorities. If the client doesn't present a certificate that matches the list, the client will be denied access -strengthening the security of your system. Place a Bid!