Enterprise Azure
Sophisticated, not complicated
Configure & Test
Simple setup and configuration using our intuitive WUI
Monitor & Control
Securely monitor your infrastructure and traffic
Secure & Maintain
Hitch-free maintenance of your servers and applications
Flexible licensing to suit your needs
Hourly
A range of pay-as-you-go subscription options offering maximum flexibility and control of your costs
from $0.30/hr
BYOL
Do you miss simple old fashioned software licenses? Yes, a simple one time payment.
from $3,995
Dedicated Loadbalancer.org solution versus Azure's default features
Model | Microsoft Azure | Loadbalancer.org |
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STANDARD FEATURES | ||
Layer 4 load balancing | ||
Layer 7 load balancing | ||
High availability | ||
Persistence/Affinity | ||
Server health checks | ||
Fallback server | ||
Maintenance mode | ||
ADVANCED FEATURES | ||
High availability (seamless failover) | ||
SSL termination & re-encryption | ||
Content switching | ||
Web Application Firewall (WAF) | ||
HTTP cookie persistence | ||
Source IP persistence | ||
RDP cookie persistence | ||
Any TCP/UDP protocol | ||
Negotiate health check | ||
Custom health check | ||
Integration with Microsoft Connection Broker | ||
Multiport load balancing | ||
Highly customizable timeouts | ||
Load balance cloud based and non-cloud based servers | ||
Comprehensive real-time & historical reports | ||
Session distribution based on server load | ||
Support for multiple load balanced services running on multiple IP addresses |
Technical Specifications
Product overview
Enterprise Azure is easy to operate, designed to handle highly complex environments across Azure and on-premise.
Standard Features
- Server Load Balancing (SLB) for any TCP or UDP based protocol
- SSL Acceleration/Offload
- Layer 7 Content Switching
- No bandwidth, performance or feature limitations
- High performance Direct Routing, 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)
- GSLB
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
Unlimited Throughput (Instance Dependent)
Unlimited SSL Acceleration/Offload (Instance Dependent)
Unlimited HTTP page GETs/second (Instance Dependent)
Unlimited Concurrent sessions (Instance 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
- Fully integrated WAF (Web Application Firewall)
- OWASP top 10 protection
- Persistent 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.
Support services
- All subscription options come with our Global Standard 24/7 support.
- BYOL appliances come with a range of support options to suit you.
Dedicated Loadbalancer.org solution versus default cloud features
Model | Microsoft AzureFind out more | AWSFind out more | GCPFind out more |
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Layer 4 load balancing | |||
Layer 7 load balancing | |||
High availability | |||
Persistence/Affinity | |||
Server health checks | |||
Fallback server | |||
Maintenance mode |