Virtual LoadMaster

What is Virtual LoadMaster?

Improve application security, availability, performance, and scalability with load balancer optimized for virtual environments. Each LoadMaster includes the main set of features that meet the demands of Application Delivery and ensure service resiliency with features such as high availability and simplified administration with easy-to-use application templates.

Advanced Layer 4-7 Load Balancing

Optimized application templates, intelligent content change logic, and a variety of application-aware traffic guidance methods ensure that customer requests are always sent to the best possible destination and that the consistent application experience is maintained

• Smart content matching and modification policies
• Application-aware health check and scheduling
• Advanced routing of traffic from multiple-tier virtual services
• SSL termination and multi-certificate SNI support
• Compression and cache optimization

Global load balancing at multiple locations

Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) enables resiliency across multiple data centers and multiple clouds, leveraging service resource recognition and DNS to drive traffic between geographically distributed pools based on defined business logic

• Location, proximity and availability policies
• Dns spoofed data protection with DNSSEC support
• GSLB cluster for redundancy
• Configurable IP range markup for advanced traffic direction logic
• Integration with application-level load balancers for higher-fidelity routing decisions

Defense in Depth Defense

With the load balancer being most commonly the network device deployed closest to the application, it is an essential part of a well-rounded strategy to position key security services to serve as a last line of defense.

• Multifactor authentication and SSO delivered with ESP
• Application-specific and general WAF rules to avoid a series of application-level exploits
• LDAP security group-based service access and traffic routing
• RADIUS, X.509, pre-authentication based on Active Directory, RSA, and Kerberos
• FIPS 140-2 support on all LoadMaster products

Comprehensive Centralized Management

To maintain optimal application experience and availability, tools that provide administrators with full control of a single glass panel are essential. Kemp 360 suite complements LoadMaster load balancers, enabling proactive monitoring, analysis, reporting and configuration management

• Monitoring and alerting you to developing incorrect problems and settings
• Multi-vendor ADC management for NGINX, F5, HAProxy, and AWS networks
• Load balancing capability and usage reporting
• Automation of operational tasks such as backups, upgrades, and scheduled restarts
• Support for fully automated virtual cloud platform deployment based on desired state configuration

Why LoadMaster

• Easy to manage

Our intuitive user interface, centralized management, and application models reduce operating costs.

• Expanda and size

LoadMaster can go where you need to go - Cloud, Virtual, or Hardware - with consistent, centralized multi-cloud administration and hyperscale performance delivery through clustering.

System Requirements

KEMP Virtual LoadMasters can be installed on Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware, Xen, KVM, and Oracle VirtualBox.

• Microsoft Hyper-V requires 32 GB of disk space with 2 x virtual CPUs and at least 2 GB of memory.
• ESX, ESXi, and VSphere require a minimum of 32 GB of disk space with 2 x virtual CPUs (2 GHz buffer) and at least 2 GB of memory.
• VMware Workstation and Player require 32 GB of disk space with 2 x virtual CPUs (2 GHz buffer) and at least 2 GB of memory.
• The Xen virtual machine requires 32 GB of virtual hard drive and 2 GB of RAM.
• The KVM virtual machine requires 32 GB of virtual hard drive and 2 GB of RAM.
• Oracle VirtualBox requires 32 GB of virtual hard drive and 2 GB of RAM.