Vault Networks’ load balancers run on F5 Networks BIG-IP hardware. F5 designed these Application Delivery Networking platforms to move Layer 4 through Layer 7 traffic with real power. They also simplify administration, because the platform reads what each application needs and adjusts traffic accordingly.
Software-based load balancers can overwhelm your CPU under heavy load. Ours avoid that problem: they process and forward Layer 2 through Layer 4 traffic at wire speed, so your internet traffic performs better. Unlike hardware-only setups, ours also run software for Layer 7 traffic, including rate-shaping, SSL acceleration, and compression.
Our load balancers support 802.1q trunking and fit directly into our network topology. That gives you interVLAN server load balancing, so you can balance traffic to any server inside our data center. A predictive routing algorithm sends every request to the most efficient server available.
Our load balancing solution balances TCP requests across two or more servers. This keeps your systems online during a hardware or software failure. Load balancing does more than spread the workload; it also builds in redundancy for when a server goes down. We monitor every server in the cluster with ICMP and TCP keep-alives. When one fails, we automatically reroute its requests to a healthy server.
What is BIG-IP load balancing? BIG-IP is F5 Networks’ Application Delivery Networking platform. Vault Networks uses BIG-IP to run our load balancers, which manage Layer 4 through Layer 7 traffic for your applications.
Does this setup support failover? Yes. We monitor every server with ICMP and TCP keep-alives, and if one fails, traffic reroutes automatically to a healthy server in the cluster.
They’re available as part of our managed services. Contact us and request a quote today.
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