Load Balancers from F5 Networks
Vault Networks uses the F5 Networks BIG-IP load balancing solution. F5's Application Delivery Networking products feature ground-breaking, next generation platforms that provide unmatched power to dramatically improve Layer 4-7 traffic throughput, administrative ease of use, and provide more application aware traffic management.
Software-based load balancers may overwhelm the CPU, however Vault Networks' solution processes and forwards layer 2 through layer 4 traffic at wire speed to provide higher throughput for increased internet traffic performance. Unlike pure hardware load balancers, our solution runs unique software to handle the complexities of layer 7 traffic such as rate-shaping, ssl acceleration, and compression.
The load balancers support 802.1q trunking to integrate seamlessly into our network topology to provide inter-vlan server load balancing. With this unique offering, customers can load balance any server within our datacenter. Using a unique "predictive" algorithm, traffic will be routed to the most efficient server.
Vault Networks' load balancing solution will balance TCP requests between two or more servers in order to ensure system uptime in the event of a hardware or system failure. Load balancing servers not only provides load mitigation for increased system performance, but also affords redundancy in the event of system failure. Using icmp and tcp keepalives, all servers in the cluster can be monitored so that in the event a server fails, requests are automatically rerouted to other servers.
