Coyote Point VLB
Virtual Load Balancing Solution

Virtualized Servers and Applications

Virtualization is emerging as a key technology enabling efficient, cost-effective server deployment. Coyote Point, a pioneer in load balancing, application delivery and application acceleration technology continues to lead the pack by offering comprehensive solutions for enhancing load balancing of virtual servers and applications.

Superior Application Delivery in a Virtual World

Equalizer VLB™ and Equalizer VLB Advanced™ are application delivery solutions optimized for load balancing VMware vSphere™. Equalizer guarantees uptime for applications delivered by virtual servers and real servers alike. Coupled with VLB, Equalizer provides a comprehensive load balancing and application acceleration solution for organizations deploying Virtualization technology. Equalizer with VLB enables businesses to ensure optimum use of virtual and physical hardware resources by effectively managing resource provisioning. Hot spots overprovisioning to handle load spikes are eliminated. The fiscal impact is both in reducing capital expenses (fewer servers) as well as reducing operational expenses (power, cooling, and management). Combine this with the highest application availability and improved application response times and you have a complete solution that enhances the success of a virtual server environment.

Equalizer VLB and VMware® Servers

Coyote Point Equalizers with VLB monitor VMware vSphere (vCenter or ESX) to determine virtual machine status. Combining our proven application awareness expertise with VMware's ability to monitor virtual servers and physical resource utilization allows higher application performance and availability to be achieved compared to load balancing and virtualization working independently. Equalizer VLB utilizes VMware's management APIs to retrieve the real-time virtual server performance information from VMware. This VMware information is combined with Coyote Point's application and network aware capabilities to manage the traffic flowing to VMware Virtual Machines running on ESX server.

Equalizer VLB Advanced with Smart Control goes beyond load balancing.

Smart Control™ is Coyote Point's powerful visual scripting language for automating VMware administration actions based on Equalizer events and triggers. Administrators can define threshold conditions for parameters that will trigger a VMware response. By crafting the appropriate Smart Control rules, administrators can cause VMware to spin up or tear down virtual machines to deal with changing traffic patterns. Resources that would otherwise remain unused can be freed for other applications. Define Smart Control rules to reboot servers hosting crashed applications. Ensure that application response times never exceed SLA limits. Use Envoy specific rules to build content and application delivery clouds. Smart Control can even use Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) to power down unused servers, and power them back on when workload requirements demand extra computing power.

Make Equalizer your automated NOC manager

Equalizer VLB Advanced enhances the VLB feature-set, and also adds several features which allow VLB to control the behavior of the virtual machines, in addition to the behavior of the traffic for those virtual machines. Coyote Point has taken load balancing VMware vSphere to the next level with Equalizer VLB Advanced. Equalizer VLB Advanced is an option for the E350GX, E450GX, and ships as a standard feature of the E650GX.

• Equalizer VLB Advanced offers VLB Smart Control threshold capabilities
• Enables monitoring and controlling application performance and server responses
• Allows for automated VMware responses to application-centric events

Available on E350GX and E450GX5B, Included with E650GX

Equalizer Model »	Equalizer VLB	Equalizer VLB Advanced
E250GX		N/A
E350GX		Available Option
E450GX		Available Option
E650GX

Equalizer guarantees the uptime of applications delivered by virtual servers while providing comprehensive, proactive management and optimization of virtualized applications and services.