SRA Server SSL Offload

There are certain limitation to this:

- the number of supported SSL Cards in the box on which SRA is running

- the performance win is like nothing

- only the SSL handshake is performance intensive

- the ongoing encryption after the negotiation is easily handable by the "normal" hardware

- the price for an extra SSL card is much higher than that of an extra box

- support issues with a limited number of SSL cards

What some customers do is they place an SSL terminating LoadBalancer in front of several SRA boxes. So you have a LB and SSL "offload" at the same time.

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UlfFeger at 2007-7-4 13:05:06 >