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jetNEXUS Accelerating Load Balancer Extreme Virtual Appliance

High performance web load balancing & application acceleration for virtualised environments

The ALB-X (Accelerating Load Balancer Extreme) VA delivers cost effective, high performance web acceleration and load balancing, enabling you to reduce server load and bandwidth requirements, whilst increase capacity and availability. The ALB-X VA makes applications fly!

Designed as a complete Virtual Appliance to run on both VMware ESX and VMware server, the ALB-X VA significantly enhances the performance, scalability and security of application environments.

The ALB-X VA combines the functions of Layer 7 Load Balancing, Compression, SSL Offload and Content Caching
in one comprehensive solution.

jetNEXUS ALB-X VA is VMware Ready Certified

Why Use a Virtual Appliance?

Cost Effective

Eliminate the need for dedicated, physical hardware, decrease operating costs and increase existing hardware utilisation.

Outstanding Performance

The ALB-X VA can manage hundreds of Megabytes throughput running as a virtual machine

A Greener Solution

Reduce power consumption and improve existing IT resource utilisation

Increased Scalability

Flexible and scalable to sustain the demands of business growth

Quick Installation

Fast and easy deployment

Features
TechSpec

ALB-X VA Feature

Benefit

Certified VMware Ready

Status represents best in class, ready-to-run virtual appliance solution and is only granted by VMware after rigorous testing and extensive validation requirements are met.

jetNEXUS Virtual Load Balancer is VMware Ready

flightPATH Routing Engine

NEW: FlightPATH is a rule engine developed by jetNEXUS to intelligently manipulate and route HTTP and HTTPS traffic. It is highly configurable, very powerful and yet easy to use.

New GUI

NEW: Offering superb ease-of-use, drag and drop functionality and dynamically updated performance statistics.

jetNEXUS Discovery

Discovery is used to scan the network and list all jetNEXUS ALB devices. Discovery makes the basic configuration and access, including the allocation of a management IP and default gateway easy, simple and straightforward.

Layer 4 to Layer 7 Server Load Balancing

Operating at the application protocol level increases functionality with features such as URL switching, cookie based persistence and request scanning.

Content Caching

Reduces server load and bandwidth consumption and accelerates applications. Easy to configure with multiple caching profiles.

Connection Management

Optimises the performance of TCP/IP and manages stress on web servers. Key to high performance load balancing

Application Acceleration

Acceleration algorithms deliver compressed, optimised content for superb page delivery and excellent end user experience

High-performance SSL Offload

Remove the overhead of CPU intensive encryption from your web servers basically minimising the performance impact on the server pool

HTTP Content Compression

Rule based compression improves performance and delivers bandwidth savings.

Active/Active failover configuration

Deploy ALB-X Load balancers in a high availability pair to enable fail over and remove any single point of failure, eliminating service downtime for your online platform.

Multiple session persistence modes

To ensure session integrity. NEW: Includes configurable application cookie session persistence

Advanced Server Health Monitoring

To detect and route around problem servers – from simple ping and TCP tests to full web GETs

Advanced Reporting & Logging

Advanced reporting/logging options and real time performance and availability stats for comprehensive monitoring and analysis. NEW: Real-time Ajax server status display

Compatibility

RoHS compliant, PCI DSS Compliant, FCC approved

Easy Management

Secure web based interface for easy management and flexible configuration and changes. Simple, fast deployment with jetNEXUS Discovery Tool for automatic detection.

jetNEXUS ALB-X Virtual Appliance

The jetNEXUS ALB-X VA is a complete virtual appliance solution and been certified as VMware Ready, a status which represents best in class, ready-to-run virtual appliance solutions, and is only granted by VMware after rigorous testing and extensive validation requirements are met.

This build includes our custom Kernel operating system integrated with our highly tuned ALB-X software. The virtual appliance easily runs on many desktop environments as well as the award winning VMware ESX server.

jetNEXUS is a VMware Technology Alliance partner

The installation is simple and quick and requires no experience of the underlying operating system. The entire configuration can be carried out via the jetNEXUS web admin console or the jetNEXUS discovery application.