Tuning HAProxy in a vSphere Environment
Network Diagram. We want to maximize the throughput from the blue box (the client) to the green box (HAProxy) Summary We were able to push through almost 450 MB/sec through HAProxy (which terminated our SSL) by carefully matching our 4-core HAProxy with 2 x 4-core Gorouters (which were on a much slower ESXi host). Results Bandwidth MB/second Configuration 201.27MB 1 HAProxy: 1 vCPU 136.47MB 1 HAProxy: 2 vCPUs 270.56MB 2 Gorouters: 1 vCPU 350....