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Features of Аll Мodels
LoadMaster features are tied to support subscriptions, which are available in three tiers: Standard, Enterprise, and Enterprise Plus. This table shows the features and support provided with each subscription tier.
| Subscription Tier | |||
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Features
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Standard | Enterprise | Enterprise
Plus |
| Standard scheduling (Round Robin, Fixed, etc.) | |||
| Advanced scheduling (Least Connection, URL hash, etc.) | |||
| High availability (HA) / clustering | |||
| Advanced content-based routing (content switching) | |||
| Caching & compression | |||
| Client limiting/Quality of Service (QoS) | |||
| TLS/SSL offload | |||
| HTTP/2 support | |||
| Network telemetry | |||
| Kubernetes Ingress Controller | |||
| IP address filtering | |||
| IPv6 Support | |||
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Supports Hypervisors and IaaS Cloud Platforms
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Template Support
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Rest API, Automation Enabled
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| Geographic balancing | |||
| Standard scheduling (Round Robin, Fixed, etc.) | |||
| Advanced scheduling (proximity, location-based) | |||
| Updated reputation data daily | |||
| DNSSEC capability | |||
| Access control by IP | |||
| High availability | |||
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Server and application health & performance monitoring
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Application analytics and telemetry
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Certificate lifecycle management
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Incident management
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Security monitoring
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Snort-compatible Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)
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Zero Trust Access Gateway (ZTAG)
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VPN – Policy-based and route-based
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Encryption acceleration with FIPS 140-2 support
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| Offloading and re-encryption | |||
| Certificate management | |||
| OCSP support | |||
| SNI support | |||
| Cipher Suite management | |||
| Pre-authentication | |||
| Single sign-on | |||
| Custom login forms | |||
| LDAP, SAML, Active Directory & RADIUS | |||
| Two Factor Authentication | |||
| Updated reputation data daily | |||
| PCI-DSS 6.6 | |||
| OWASP Top 10 | |||
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Perpetual
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Subscription
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PAYG
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BYOL
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Pooled
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SPLA
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10x5 Support
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24x7 Premium live support
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Firmware updates
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Online Knowledge Base
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Community
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Hardware return & replace
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In advance hardware replacement
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| Standard scheduling (Round Robin, Fixed, etc.) |
| Advanced scheduling (Least Connection, URL hash, etc.) |
| High availability (HA) / clustering |
| Advanced content-based routing (content switching) |
| Caching & compression |
| Client limiting/Quality of Service (QoS) |
| TLS/SSL offload |
| HTTP/2 support |
| Network telemetry |
| Kubernetes Ingress Controller |
| IP address filtering |
| IPv6 Support |
|
Supports Hypervisors and IaaS Cloud Platforms
|
|
Template Support
|
|
Rest API, Automation Enabled
|
|
Server and application health & performance monitoring
|
|
Application analytics and telemetry
|
|
Certificate lifecycle management
|
|
Incident management
|
|
Security monitoring
|
|
Snort-compatible Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)
|
|
Zero Trust Access Gateway (ZTAG)
|
|
VPN – Policy-based and route-based
|
|
Encryption acceleration with FIPS 140-2 support
|
| Offloading and re-encryption |
| Certificate management |
| OCSP support |
| SNI support |
| Cipher Suite management |
|
Perpetual
|
|
Subscription
|
|
PAYG
|
|
BYOL
|
|
Pooled
|
|
SPLA
|
|
10x5 Support
|
|
Firmware updates
|
|
Online Knowledge Base
|
|
Community
|
|
Hardware return & replace
|
| Standard scheduling (Round Robin, Fixed, etc.) |
| Advanced scheduling (Least Connection, URL hash, etc.) |
| High availability (HA) / clustering |
| Advanced content-based routing (content switching) |
| Caching & compression |
| Client limiting/Quality of Service (QoS) |
| TLS/SSL offload |
| HTTP/2 support |
| Network telemetry |
| Kubernetes Ingress Controller |
| IP address filtering |
| IPv6 Support |
|
Supports Hypervisors and IaaS Cloud Platforms
|
|
Template Support
|
|
Rest API, Automation Enabled
|
|
Server and application health & performance monitoring
|
|
Application analytics and telemetry
|
|
Certificate lifecycle management
|
|
Incident management
|
|
Security monitoring
|
|
Snort-compatible Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)
|
|
Zero Trust Access Gateway (ZTAG)
|
|
VPN – Policy-based and route-based
|
|
Encryption acceleration with FIPS 140-2 support
|
| Offloading and re-encryption |
| Certificate management |
| OCSP support |
| SNI support |
| Cipher Suite management |
| Pre-authentication |
| Single sign-on |
| Custom login forms |
| LDAP, SAML, Active Directory & RADIUS |
| Two Factor Authentication |
|
Perpetual
|
|
Subscription
|
|
PAYG
|
|
BYOL
|
|
Pooled
|
|
SPLA
|
|
24x7 Premium live support
|
|
Firmware updates
|
|
Online Knowledge Base
|
|
Community
|
|
In advance hardware replacement
|
| Standard scheduling (Round Robin, Fixed, etc.) |
| Advanced scheduling (Least Connection, URL hash, etc.) |
| High availability (HA) / clustering |
| Advanced content-based routing (content switching) |
| Caching & compression |
| Client limiting/Quality of Service (QoS) |
| TLS/SSL offload |
| HTTP/2 support |
| Network telemetry |
| Kubernetes Ingress Controller |
| IP address filtering |
| IPv6 Support |
|
Supports Hypervisors and IaaS Cloud Platforms
|
|
Template Support
|
|
Rest API, Automation Enabled
|
| Geographic balancing |
| Standard scheduling (Round Robin, Fixed, etc.) |
| Advanced scheduling (proximity, location-based) |
| Updated reputation data daily |
| DNSSEC capability |
| Access control by IP |
| High availability |
|
Server and application health & performance monitoring
|
|
Application analytics and telemetry
|
|
Certificate lifecycle management
|
|
Incident management
|
|
Security monitoring
|
|
Snort-compatible Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)
|
|
Zero Trust Access Gateway (ZTAG)
|
|
VPN – Policy-based and route-based
|
|
Encryption acceleration with FIPS 140-2 support
|
| Offloading and re-encryption |
| Certificate management |
| OCSP support |
| SNI support |
| Cipher Suite management |
| Pre-authentication |
| Single sign-on |
| Custom login forms |
| LDAP, SAML, Active Directory & RADIUS |
| Two Factor Authentication |
| Updated reputation data daily |
| PCI-DSS 6.6 |
| OWASP Top 10 |
|
Perpetual
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Subscription
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PAYG
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BYOL
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Pooled
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SPLA
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24x7 Premium live support
|
|
Firmware updates
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|
Online Knowledge Base
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|
Community
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In advance hardware replacement
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Next Steps
Every LoadMaster includes the core set of features that address the demands of Application Delivery and ensure service resilience with capabilities such as high availability and simplified administration with easy to use application templates
Advanced Layer 4-7 Load Balancing
Optimized application templates, intelligent content switching logic and a range of application-aware traffic steering methods ensure that client requests are always sent to the best possible target and consistent application experience is maintained
- Intelligent content matching & modification policies
- Application-aware health checking and scheduling
- Advanced multi-tier virtual service traffic routing
- SSL termination and multi-certificate SNI support
- Compression and caching optimization
Global Multi-Site Load Balancing
Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) enables multi-data center and multi-cloud resilience by leveraging service resource awareness and DNS to steer traffic across geographically distributed pools based on defined business logic
- Location, proximity and availability-based policies
- Protection of counterfeit DNS data with DNSSEC support
- GSLB clustering for redundancy
- Configurable IP range tagging for advanced traffic steering logic
- Integration with application-level load balancers for higher fidelity routing decisions
"From user experience improvements to application delivery, quality of services and cost savings, the Kemp solutions have delivered outstanding results. Kemp has made us phenomenally happy."
Tom Hearn - Senior Technology Manager, Sageworks
Defense-in-Depth Security
With the load balancer most commonly being network device deployed closest to the application, it’s optimized for co-locating key security services, introducing zero trust architecture models and providing a last line of defense.
- Zero Trust Access Gateway (ZTAG)
- Multi-factor authentication and SSO delivered with ESP
- Application-specific and general WAF rules to prevent a range of application level exploits
- LDAP security group based service access and traffic routing
- RADIUS, X.509, Active Directory, RSA & Kerberos-based pre-authentication
- FIPS 140-2 support on all LoadMaster products
Insights and Observability
Tools that provide administrators with application analytics and observability are critical to maintaining optimal application experience and availability. Progress LoadMaster 360 provides organizations of all sizes with the insights and analytics necessary to validate that applications are performing as expected and to deliver the best possible user application experience.
- In-depth dashboards to monitor application performance, health and security, including live and historical insights.
- Gain insights into your certificate estate and prevent outages with certificate lifecycle management.
- The Incident Center assists with the identification of application trends and behaviors.
- Unified authentication management across all applications and authentication providers.
- Web Application Firewall (WAF) tuning and monitoring.
Why LoadMaster
Cost Efficient
LoadMaster offers outstanding value with models and purchasing options that align with your capacity requirements and budget
Easy to Manage
Our intuitive UI, centralized management and application templates reduce operating costs and you have the world-class Kemp global support team available to assist with any issues.
Expand and Scale
LoadMaster can go wherever you need - Cloud, Virtual or Hardware - with consistent and centralized multi-cloud administration and delivering hyper-scale performance through clustering.
Support Subscription Enhancements
Kemp Load Balancers include a standard set of rich features and support that can be further enhanced with advanced Support Subscriptions. These enable additional support services along with extended management capabilities and cyber security functionality.
Learn More about Support Subscription Enhancements