ALOHA Load Balancer Virtual Appliance
Load balancing virtual appliance
For organizations, hosting providers and datacenters that have set up virtualized and/or pooled IT infrastructures such as Cloud Computing, Exceliance provides its load balancing software as a virtual appliance.
> Load balancing in virtual environments
ALOHA Virtual Appliance is designed to integrate simply and quickly into virtual environments or architectures designed for Cloud Computing. In this version, the load balancer’s functions are available as a VMware™, Microsoft Hyper-V™, Citrix XenServer™, Red Hat™ Enterprise Virtualization, KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) or Xen virtual image.
> Same features as the hardware appliance version
ALOHA Load Balancer Virtual Appliance provides all the network (layer 7) and application (layer 4) load balancing features available on 1U hardware boxes. Processing performance depends on the power of the server used for load balancing.
> Automated load balancer provisioning
For hosting providers and outsourced IT providers, that provide Cloud Computing architectures for their customers, Exceliance has developed a programming interface (API) to automate load balancer provisioning and configuration from the administration or operation portals.