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Whats recommended? Running CSS in parallel with or independent of LD?

tirawlins
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In migrating from Local Directors to CSS, is it recommended to deplot the CSS to be independent of the local directors? We have a proposed design that maintains the Local Directors as part of the solution, and I feel that may not be the best way, and I wanted to post this here and see what the consensus is.

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jkolak
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CSS is a superset of LD. CSS does what LD does and much more. CSS strengths lay in L5-L7 ie. NBAR, Flash Crowd insurance with WebNS, Cookie and URL inspection, and TCP intercetpt & splicing of connections to the best server in the server farm. Yes it can do L2, L3, L4 but there are other Cisco products to do this.

I agree the inclusion of LD in your new solution limits you to L4 functionality. My own opinion is that a solution is only as good as the "weakest" component. I would go independant of the LD. Perhaps you can redeploy the LD in another part of the LAN?

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