ALOHA Virtual Appliance

Application Delivery Controller

Plug-and-play Application-Layer load balancing appliance for enterprises with virtualized infrastructure.

From HAProxy Technologies

Plug and play load balancers

The simple to use HAProxy Virtual Application Delivery Controller includes an embed GUI and configuration templating system, allowing for deployment of new applications in minutes.

Full Featured Load Balancer / Application Delivery Controller
HAProxy and LVS embedded in an easy to use virtual image
Simple GUI to manage the device, configuration wizards and templates
Configuration API
Cluster mode for high-availability

Seamless Integration

The ALOHA Virtual Appliance Load Balancer has been smartly designed to integrate seamlessly into any environment.

Powerful Features

The ALOHA Virtual Load Balancer provides the same powerful Application and Network (Layer 7 and Layer 4) load balancing features that are available in the ALOHA Hardware Appliance.

* Processing performance depends on the power of the server and hypervisor running below the Virtual Appliance.

Available Integrations

Available as an image for the following hypervisors:

VMware
Microsoft Hyper-V
Citrix XenServer
KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine)
Xen virtual image

HAProxy VM Licenses

HAProxy VM licensing options provide the flexibility your enterprise requires. Choose the service level that is right for your needs without fear of lock-in. As new needs arise you can rest assured that you will not be penalized for growth.

Licenses	1K	2K	4K	8K *	16K *	30K *	50K *
L7 Connections HTTP/s	1000	2000	4000	8000	16000	30000	50000
L7 Concurrent Connections	5000	10000	20000	40000	80000	120000	160000
SSL TPS (TLS 1.2)	300	600	1200	2400	4000	8000	16000
L4 Connection/s	3700	7500	18000	40000	60000	120000	200000
Recommended Hypervisors	All	All	All	All	All	Hyper-V vSphere	vSphere
Recommended Memory	1G	2G	2G	2G	2G	4G	8G
Min vCPUs	1	1	1	2	2	2 to 4	2 to 4

* Performance strongly depends on the hypervisor. Please contact us for details.

For Optimal Performance

Choose the license that matches your traffic pattern and hypervisor needs in your environment.

Licenses	1K	2K	4K	8K *	16K *	30K *	50K *
Recommended Hypervisors	All	All	All	All	All	Hyper-V vSphere	vSPhere
Recommended Memory	1G	2G	2G	2G	2G	4G	8G
Min CPUs	1	1	1	2	2	2 to 4	2 to 4

* Performance strongly depends on the hypervisor. Please contact us for details.

Technical Features

ALOHA Virtual Appliance

Network load balancing (layer 4)
Application Delivery Controller (layer 7)
Support for all IPv4 and IPv6 based protocols
SSL/TLS offloading, bridging, passthrough, re-encryption
Native support for web services and WebSockets
Content-based, intelligent requests routing (content switching)
Session persistence management using cookies
Application cookie learning such as PHPSESSID, JSESSIONID, ASP.NET_SessionId and others

Replication of session status between a master ALOHA and its slave(s)
Wide selection of balancing algorithms (round-robin, leastconn, hash) with weighting
Hashing algorithms optimized for proxy farms
Layer 7 Reverse-proxy and transparent proxy modes
Layer 4 NAT, Direct Server Return and IPIP modes
VIP-less modes
Full IP support
IPv6 ready

Floating Virtual IPs using VRRP
Continuous server and application health checks
Virtual IP announces using routing protocols (BGP/OSPF)
Graceful server shutdown

Overload protection
Backup servers or farms
Session persistence and maintenance management on ALOHA in standby mode
Unlimited number of virtual services, server farms and servers in a farm

Unlimited management of IP:port pairs using a virtual server
Generation of detailed application logs in place of servers (access log offloading)
TCP/HTTP acceleration through buffering
Server side connections dynamically controlled
Early release of connections

HTTP compression
Advanced reporting of response times per server and URLs
Filtering of useless TCP connections and HTTP requests
HTTP header manipulation

Protocol validation (HTTP, TLS)
Protection against SYN floods, DoS, DDoS, worms, bots, etc.
Management of black/white lists
User authentication with third party software
Advanced URL filtering
Access Control Lists management

Prevention of information leaks
Filtering HTTP/HTTPS queries and responses
User behavior analysis by source IP, cookie, HTTP header, etc…
Protection against brute force attacks
Management of TLS client certificates
Block malicious or needless HTTP queries

VLAN tagging (802.1q)
Support for Syslog, SNMP, traps SNMP, VRRP and NTP standards
Network interface bridging and bonding (802.3ad)
Integration in proxy or transparent proxy mode
Advanced monitoring and logging, status of services and applications, connection details, activity statistics
Web or CLI administration interface (SSH or serial port access)

Malfunction diagnostic tools
Multi-level administration (monitoring and configuration)
Configuration management and provisioning API via REST/JSON web service and CLI
Management of multi-tenant architecture configuration via the configuration API
Configuration templating

ALOHA Documentation

Quick start and configuration guides

Learn how to deploy and configure your ALOHA device.

ALOHA 9.0 (LTS)

Firmware

Release Notes
End of Support: August 2019
PacketShield

Quick start guides

Hardware Appliance
Virtual Appliance

Deployment guides

Microsoft Exchange 2010
Microsoft Remote Desktop Services

ALOHA 8.5 (LTS)

Firmware

Release Notes
End of Support: November 2019
PacketShield

Quick start guides

Hardware Appliance
Virtual Appliance

Deployment guides

Microsoft Exchange 2010
Microsoft Remote Desktop Services

ALOHA 8.0

Firmware

Release Notes
End of Support: August 2017
PacketShield

Quick start guides

Hardware Appliance
Virtual Appliance

Deployment guides

Microsoft Exchange 2010
Microsoft Remote Desktop Services

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