While the Azure Cloud provides many additional components and services beyond what is offered by the Azure Load Balancer, KEMP’s LoadMaster provides a rich set of integrated functionality, easily configured and managed via the Web User Interface. The same set of capabilities is offered when LoadMaster – as an appliance or virtual machine – is used on premises. Having a common interface in both environments is a big advantage when deploying hybrid 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 |