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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
Features
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      
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
     
Subscription
     
PAYG
     
BYOL
     
Pooled
     
SPLA
     
     
10x5 Support
     
24x7 Premium live support
     
Firmware updates
     
Online Knowledge Base
     
Community
     
Hardware return & replace
     
In advance hardware replacement
     
Subscription Tier

Standard
Enterprise
Enterprise Plus
Features
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
Subscription
PAYG
BYOL
Pooled
SPLA
24x7 Premium live support
Firmware updates
Online Knowledge Base
Community
In advance hardware replacement

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
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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
Learn More about Global Multi-Site Load Balancing
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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
Learn More about Defense-in-Depth Security

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.
Learn more about LoadMaster 360
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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

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