Product overview

An entry-level solution that is easy to use and easy to buy with flexible licensing and upgrade options.

Standard Features

• Server Load Balancing (SLB) for any TCP or UDP based protocol
• SSL Acceleration/Offload
• Layer 7 Content Switching
• Transparent caching for HTTP/HTTPS
• Compression of static and dynamic HTTP/HTTPS content
• No bandwidth, performance or feature limitations
• High performance Direct Routing (N-Path), TUN, NAT and SNAT
• Schedulers: Round Robin, Least Connection, Weighted Least Connection, Weighted Round Robin
• Dynamic Schedulers: Windows and Linux feedback agents, Custom HTTP feedback option
• Load balance almost ANY protocol i.e. HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, Terminal Server, etc.
• Support for Direct Server Return (DSR) configurations
• Configurable S-NAT support
• Link aggregation (802.3ad)
• VLAN Tagging (802.1Q)

SSL

• PCI-ready SSL Implementation
• Unlimited support for SSL Certificates
• Support for Third Party Certificates
• Automated SSL Certificate Chaining
• SSL Certificate Signing Request (CSR) Generation
• PFX upload and conversion
• Proxy protocol support

Performance

• 400 Mbps Bandwidth License
• 400 SSL TPS
• Unlimited HTTP Page GETs/second (Host Dependent)
• Unlimited Concurrent Session (Host Dependent)

L4/L7 sticky persistence

• Connection persistence based on
  • Source IP address
  • SSL Session ID
  • Passive Cookie
  • Active Cookie (Insert)
  • RDP Cookie/Session Broker
  • X-forwarded for header
• Port following (Persistence on multiple combined ports)
• Multiple fallback options i.e. use source IP if no cookie found

Security functionality

• Persistent White/Black List (Access Control List system)
• Firewall filtering (full iptables scripting support)
• Firewall lock down wizard
• DDOS mitigation both at layer 4 and 7
• Virtual patching
• HTTP and SYN Flood protection
• Block SQL Injection Attacks
• Prevent Cross Site Scripting (XSS)
• FIPS 140-2 Compliant
• PCI DSS Ready
• Reverse proxy

Health checking and high availability

• Application health checking for DNS, FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, NNTP and many more
• ICMP health checking of server farm machines
• External Health Check scripts can be edited and managed using WebUI across L4/L7 and GSLB
• Automatic reconfiguration for defective real server machines
• Automatically remove a failed server from the load balancing pool
• Automatic replication of static and dynamic configuration from master to slave load balancer
• Stateful Failover (persistence table replication)
• One click secure clustered pair configuration

Scheduling and balancing methods

• Round Robin
• Weighted Round Robin
• Least Connection
• Weighted Least Connection
• Agent-based Adaptive (Windows and Linux Agents)
• Layer 7 Content Switching
• Destination Hash for transparent proxy

Administration

• Secure, SSH, HTTP and HTTPS for remote access administration
• Fully configurable using Web User Interface (WUI)
• Easy start configuration and maintenance wizards
• Extensive ACL Traffic Rules configurable using WebUI
• WebUI-based Help Assistant
• Online chat support integrated in WebUI
• Virtual Service Configurations can be edited and tuned on-the-fly
• Real time performance and availability displays
• Optionally configure console port for local administration
• Remotely scriptable Command Line Interface (LBCLI) Option
• SOAP interface to the LBCLI API
• Local and Remote syslogd support
• Selective restore of physical and Virtual Service data
• Support for Connection Draining or halting with or without persistence
• Software and Security updates available on and off-line
• WebUI Log Reporting with Tabbed Browser Support
• SNMP support for performance metrics
• Full root access to with a multitude of diagnostic tools tcpdump etc.

• VMware
• Hyper-V
• KVM
• VirtualBox
• Xen
• Nutanix