Server Load Balancing
The AX Series advanced server load balancing and flexible health monitoring capabilities ensure application availability and reliability. The core of the AX Series platform covers a wide range of options for load balancing methods and health checks. Comprehensive IPv4 and IPv6 support across all models maximizes options for current and future deployment.
Key Features:
Advanced Layer 4/Layer 7 Server Load Balancing
- Fast TCP, Fast UDP, Fast HTTP, Full HTTP Proxy
- High-performance, template-based, Layer 7 URL and URL hash switching
- Header, URL and domain manipulation
- Comprehensive Layer 7 application persistence support
- aFleX technology for deep packet inspection and traffic manipulation
Comprehensive load balancing methods for server selection
- Round Robin
- Least Connections
- Weighted Round Robin
- Weighted Least Connections
- Fastest Response
Advanced Health Monitoring to ensure servers and applications are responding as expected, and to remove unresponsive servers of applications from load balancing
- Comprehensive protocol support - ICMP, TCP, UDP, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, RTSP, SMTP, POP3, SNMP, DNS, RADIUS, LDAP, SIP
- TCL scriptable health check support
The AX Series comprehensive traffic manipulation features, load balancing methods and health checks—coupled with flexible deployment methods—ensure deployability in any scenario.