LoadMaster 5500 Specifications *

Standard

  • Server Load Balancing (SLB) for TCP/UDP based protocols
  • SSL Acceleration/Offload
  • Layer 7 Content Switching
  • In-memory HTTP Cache with Compression
  • Up to 256 Virtual and 1000 Real Servers
  • NAT-based forwarding
  • Support for Direct Server Return (DSR) configurations Configurable S-NAT support
  • VLAN Tagging (802.1Q)

Performance

  • Up to 800Mbps per Virtual Service
  • Up to 10 Gbps (Combined) Throughput
  • 100,000 http page GETs/second
  • 200,000 L7 concurrent sessions
  • 30,000,000 L4 concurrent connections
  • SSL Acceleration Up to 10,000 TPS

SSL Acceleration/Offload Performance & Features:

  • ASIC-enabled, hardware SSL Acceleration **
  • PCI-ready SSL Implementation
  • Support for up to 256 SSL Certificates
  • Support for Third Party Certificates
  • Automated SSL Certificate Chaining
  • SSL Certificate Signing Request (CSR) Generation

Health Checking and High Availability

  • ICMP health checking of server farm machines
  • Service checking for DNS, FTP, HTTP, IMAP, NNTP, POP3, SMTP, TELNET
  • Automatic reconfiguration for defective real server machines
  • Active/Hot Standby configurations for High Availability
  • Stateful Failover

Web User Interface (WUI)

  • Virtual Service Configurations can be edited and tuned on-the-fly
  • Real time performance and availability displays
  • Preview capability of most recent LoadMaster data
  • WUI-based Interactive Help Assistant
  • Nicknames of virtual services
  • Graceful administrative removal of Real Servers

Administration

  • Fully configurable using Web User Interface (WUI)
  • Secure, SSH and HTTPS (WUI) remote access for administration
  • Easy start and maintenance using wizards
  • WUI-based Help Assistant
  • Virtual Service Configurations can be edited and tuned on-the-fly
  • Real time performance and availability displays
  • Graceful Administrative removal of Real Servers
  • Console port for local administration
  • Command Line Interface (CLI) Option
  • Remote syslogd support
  • Selective restore of LoadMaster and Virtual Service data
  • Support for Connection Draining
  • Download software updates for LoadMaster firmware
  • WUI Log Reporting with Tabbed Browser Support
  • SNMP support for event traps & performance metrics
  • Diagnostic shell with in-line tcpdump

Scheduling and Balancing Methods

  • Round Robin
  • Weighted Round Robin
  • Least Connection
  • Weighted Least Connection
  • Agent-based Adaptive
  • Chained Failover (Fixed Weighting)

Support for Microsoft Terminal Services

  • WTS-aware, Layer 7 health checking
  • Reconnects users to active/disconnected sessions
  • Resource-based Adaptive Balancing
  • Integrates with MS Session Directory & Session Broker
  • Transparent ITM solution, no change to clients or servers required

L4/L7 Sticky (Persistence) Connection persistency based on

  • Source IP address
  • SSL Session ID
  • URL
  • Host Header
  • Passive Cookie
  • Active Cookie (Insert)
  • Cookie Hash
  • Cookie Hash Source
  • Query Hash
  • Port following for persistency options

Security Functionality

  • Black List (Access Control List system)
  • IP address filtering
  • Firewall filtering (everything forbidden except VS’s)
  • DDOS mitigation

Hardware Platform

  • Two Intel Quad-Core Xeon CPUs
  • 18 GbE Autonegotiating Ports Standard, 24 GbE Ports Optional **
  • Full duplex support
  • Bootable DOM (No Hard Disks)
  • 4 GB RAM
  • Local admin via console/VGA and USB
  • Dimensions: 424 x 600 x 88 mm (2U Rack Mountable)
  • Two 460W ATX power supplies (Redundant, Hot-swap)
  • Weight ~ 55.12bs (25kg)
  • Certifications: CE/FCC Class A; RoHS Compliant

* Specifications are subject to change without prior notice

** Maximum number of GbE ports supported with SSL ASIC is 18. SSL ASIC is required to achieve up to 10,000 SSL TPS