KEMP Technologies LoadMaster
Model Comparison
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
- 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
| Throughput |
927Mbps |
| L7 Requests/Second |
31,883 |
| SSL TPS |
249 |
| L4 Concurrent Connections |
~2 Million |
| L7 Concurrent Connections |
~100,000 |
- Dell PowerEdge R410 Server
- 1X Intel E5520 Xeon Processor
- 2GB Allocated RAM
- Intel PRO 1000PT Dual Port 1GbE NIC, PCIe-4
- VMware ESXi v4.0
Specifications are subject to change without prior notice
Benefits of Virtual Load Balancing
KEMP Technologies has announced the launch of its Virtual LoadMaster (VLM). This new virtual-appliance application
delivery controller (ADC) will be sold under a Service Provider Licensing Agreement (SPLA) starting at $99 per license per month with no
startup or setup fees. The SPLA pricing model enables managed hosting providers (MHPs) and managed service providers (MSPs) to offer a
dedicated server load balancer with the same functionality as KEMP's hardware appliances at a price point affordable to a much broader range
of business customers while significantly reducing operating costs.
The "Virtual Appliance" model reduces or eliminates
costs associated with power consumption, cooling, rack-space and other
environmental dependencies of hardware appliances. All of these factors
allow you to provide your users with additional value for minimal
additional cost.
LoadMaster's easy to use Web-based UI and support for SSH allows for fast configurations and simplified "device"
management, significantly increasing "managed services" ROI and reducing end-user support requirements.
Kemp's pricing structure, combined with the SaaS delivery model provides for aggressive marketing and business
development opportunities in high-value services while achieving high degree of differentiation.
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