This diagram from KEMP, illustrates the Virtual LoadMaster solution, which now supports Hyper-V virtualization in addition to VMware.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The Virtual LoadMaster solution from application delivery and load balancing technology developer KEMP Technologies (www.kemptechnologies.com) now supports Microsoft’s (www.microsoft.com) hypervisor-based server virtualization technology, Hyper-V.
Launched in March, the Virtual LoadMaster application delivery controller is designed to offer the same functionality as KEMP’s hardware appliances.
According to KEMP’s Tuesday announcement, VLM is one of the first production-ready virtual-appliance application delivery controllers to support Hyper-V, and, as a full-featured ADC, VLM can significantly improve performance, scalability and availability of applications running on Hyper-V virtual machines.
The Virtual LoadMaster removes the need to maintain hardware and reduces costs associated with power consumption, cooling, rack space constraints and other environmental dependencies of hardware-based appliances.
Built on the same LoadMaster OS as KEMP’s hardware appliances, VLM offers the same rich feature set, robust management and Web-based user interface as the rest of the LoadMaster product family.
“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,” KEMP co-founder and product management vice president Peter Melerud said in a statement. “As our customers realize the benefits of virtual server environments powered by Hyper-V, KEMP is ensuring that their investment is further leveraged by turning Virtual Machines into fully-featured, production-capable ADCs.”
By supporting Microsoft’s Hyper-V, KEMP’s VLM customers are positioned to better leverage the benefits of server virtualization. VLM can distribute user traffic across the best-performing virtual machines, and further optimize application access through included features such as SSL offload, caching, compression, content switching and Layer-7 persistence. It also helps provide high application availability with its advanced application health checking, and ability to be deployed in a redundant, active/hot-standby configuration.
The Hyper-V version of the Virtual LoadMaster is available immediately, and pricing starts at $1,490 and includes a first-year support agreement. A free 30-day trial is available from KEMP’s website.
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