Whether hosting servers at a data center or centrally at head office there is an ongoing and increasing demand for server performance and availability. This often leads to a requirement for more than one server to handle an application either because of load and/or for backup and fail over reasons. This then leads to a need to find a way to direct clients to a particular server and this process is complicated by many issues such as – keeping client sessions on the same server, allowing for server downtime (whether for upgrades, maintenance, or failure), and differences in server performance and load capacities. Opteq has developed its Balance iQ module to simplify and manage this process in a very cost effective, high performance, and flexible way.

Business Benefits

Enhancing your network, building your business, and making your users happy Balance iQ:

• Adds High Availability and Redundancy to your servers
• Understands differences in server capacities and balances loads effectively while ensuring server persistence for client sessions
• Proxies and load balances any TCP based protocol (HTTP, SMTP etc.) with addition options for HTTP protocols.
• Handles unlimited servers and hundreds of thousands of connections without any additional costs.
• Provides extensive reporting to enhance your ability to understand and manage your network.
• Adds security features such as layer 7 URL blocking options to protect your servers and users.

Technical Edge

Balance iQ will handle the complexities of server load balancing while enhancing the management and usage of your servers.

Providing a dynamic solution to your server balancing, Balance iQ will:

• Transparently redirect connections (inline mode) or actual address mode optionally
• Handle from a small to a large server pool dynamically and cost effectively with tuneable parameters for health and dead host detection
• Manages unlimited groups of servers
• Handle millions (dependent of base unit chosen) of client connections in a highly efficient and flexible way
• Handles large loads through an efficient and robust event driven threaded architecture
• Distributes loads based on flexible and powerful algorithms.
• Switch to backup servers or reallocate load on demand or when a failure is detected
• Connection limits by group or server or unlimited
• Accepts connection on dedicated server monitoring ports.
• Route HTTP requests to ensure server persistence based on statically assign cookies.
• Allows adding, deleting, or modification of HTTP headers in both directions.
• Allows blocking of URL’s based on flexible pattern matching.
• Provide extensive reporting from SQL based report writer.