While the Azure Cloud provides many additional components and services beyond what is offered by the Azure Load Balancer some basic load balancing capabilities, KEMP’s LoadMaster VLM for Azure has additional and enhanced features and capabilities provides a rich set of integrated functionality, easily configured and managed via the Web User Interface. The same set of capabilities are available when LoadMaster, as an appliance or virtual machine, is used on premises. Having a common interface across all environments is a big advantage and provides a simpler, consistent management experience when deploying hybrid or heterogeneous cloud environments.
| Azure | LoadMaster | |
|---|---|---|
| Basic and Standard Tier VM support | ||
| Network Level L4 load balancing | ||
| Multiple application access with single IP | Limited | |
| Pre-configured application templates | ||
| Web User Interface for ease of management | ||
| High availability | (Using Traffic Manager) | |
| Clustering | ||
| Hybrid Traffic Distribution | (with advanced traffic distribution) | |
| Load balance across Azure VNET regions | (Internal Azure and external network) | |
| Scheduling methods | Round Robin Only | L4/L7 |
| Server Persistence | L4 Only | L4/L7(Advanced options) |
| SSL Termination/Offload | ||
| Content Caching/Compression | ||
| Least Connection Scheduling | ||
| Server Name Indicator (SNI) | ||
| VM Resource Availability Awareness | ||
| Web Application Firewall Protection | ||
| Two Factor Authentication | ||
| Health Check aggregation | ||
| Single Sign On | ||
| SmartCard(CAC) / X.509 Certificate Authentication | ||
| LDAP Authentication | ||
| Radius Authentication | ||
| Kerberos Constrained Delegation Support | ||
| Active Directory group based traffic steering | ||
| Header content switching | ||
| Header manipulation | ||
| Adaptive scheduling | ||
| OCSP Certificate Validation | ||
| Import/Export SSL Certificates | ||
| TCP Multiplexing | ||
| Reverse Proxy |