Kemp Technologies' Virtual LoadMaster now supports Hyper-V and VMware, letting users to create application-specific VMs to support Microsoft applications.
Kemp Technologies added Microsoft Hyper-V support to its virtual
load balancing appliance, which will provide customers running Microsoft
applications with load balancing, scalability and high availability, the
company said on Oct. 19.
The Virtual LoadMaster now supports hypervisors from both
Microsoft and VMware. Xen hypervisors will likely be supported in "a year or
two," said Peter Melerud, co-founder and vice-president of product management
at
Kemp Technologies.
The company said a significant segment of the existing user base
used Kemp products to balance their existing Microsoft applications.
Hyper-V
will let them bundle specific applications to use Kemp's VLM appliance.
"A large number of our customers already use the LoadMaster to
enable
application delivery for Microsoft server-based products such as
Exchange 2010, Sharepoint, OCS and Terminal Services," said Melerud.
Virtual Load Master is a full-featured application delivery
controller available as a virtual appliance. VLM significantly improves
performance, scalability, and availability of applications running on Hyper-V
virtual machines, Kemp said in a statement.
The Virtual LoadMaster distributes Web and application traffic across
best-performing virtual machines. It optimizes application access through
included features such as SSL offload, content switching, Layer 4-7 load
balancing, and server persistence, Kemp said. It also handles front-end
capabilities such as caching, compression, and intrusion prevention, for
applications.
VLM can be deployed in a
redundant, active/hot standby configuration for business continuity. The load
balancer appliance can also divert traffic from one data center to another
during an outage or some other service disruption at the data center.
The virtual appliance is built on the same
LoadMaster OS as its
hardware counterpart. As a result, the feature set, management tool, and Web-based
user interface are the same, making it easier for customers to switch between
the virtual and physical appliance.
The appliances can detect when service is interrupted, and
intelligently redirect user traffic to the best available site, minimizing potential
downtime and business continuity across multiple, geographically-distributed
servers and data centers, the company said in a statement.
The Hyper-V version of the software for Virtual LoadMaster is
available for download from Kemp's Web site, said Melerud.. Pricing starts at
$1,990 and includes a first-year support agreement. The new hardware appliance
is priced $2,990, although an introductory rate of $1490 is available. For
existing customers the license obtained for VMware is applicable to Hyper-V,
said Melerund. One year of full product support is included in the price.
Kemp makes application delivery products such as application
delivery controllers, server load balancers, application front-end devices, Web
switches, content switches, and application switches for businesses that rely
on the Internet for e-commerce and business-critical applications, Kemp said.
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