Description
The Virtual LoadMaster
The 'virtual appliance' (software) version of the award-winning LoadMaster family of advanced server load balancing and application delivery optimization appliances.
Virtual LoadMaster installs and runs as a hardened, 'Guest' operating OS/Application on a dedicated virtual machine. It provides the same features of the LoadMaster appliance including L4 load balancing, L7 content switching, SSL Offload, Server and Application Health Checking, IP and L7 Persistence, Caching, Compression, IPS and much more. It also supports stateful Active/Hot-standby configuration between two VLMs for redundancy and high-availability. All controlled by the same intuitive, easy-to-use Web User Interface as the hardware-appliance version of the LoadMaster.
Features
- Available for Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware
- Server Load Balancing for TCP/UDP based protocols
- SSL Termination/Offload
- Layer 7 Content Switching
- Server and Application Health Checking
- Advanced, App-Transparent Caching Engine for HTTP/HTTPS protocols
- Optimized Compression for Static and Dynamic HTTP/HTTPS Content
- Layer 7 Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), SNORT-Rule (HTTP) Compatible
- Up to 500 Virtual IPs (VIP) and 1000 Real IPs (RIP)
- NAT-based forwarding
- Support for Direct Server Return (DSR) configurations
- Support for MS Terminal Services with Session Reconnection Built-in
- Configurable S-NAT support
- Web User Interface (WUI) for easy administration & configuration
- Supports cloning and relocating with native Virtualization Framework management tools