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Competitive Comparison
We prepared a short feature comparison of xLswitch and other popular software-based load-balancing and traffic
management solutions - Microsoft AppCenter, Linux Virtual Server (LVS), Turbolinux Turbocluster and Resonate Central Dispatch. LVS is open source project, very popular in Linux community, but lacks more advanced features. Resonate CD is very mature, but does not have bandwidth management features and pretty expensive. TurboCluster was once pretty popular as inexpensive clustering solution, so we included it as well, and, no comparison could be complete without Microsoft product (Application Center)
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Switched Protocols |
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HTTP, by URL, Host, Cookie, CGI parameters |
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Any other TCP-based by IP address and port |
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Bandwidth Management & QOS |
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By Client |
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By Service |
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By User |
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By other L7 protocol attributes |
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Load Balancing Strategies |
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Round Robin |
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Least Connections |
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Weighted Round Robin |
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Weigthed Least Connections |
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Least CPU |
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Session Persistence Rules |
xLswitch |
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IP Address |
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HTTP Cookie |
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HTTP CGI-parameters |
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Other Features |
xLswitch |
RSNT |
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Failover Support |
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Open SDK for L7 protocols support |
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GUI tools |
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| xLswitch |
SWsoft xLswitch, v1.1 |
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| RSNT |
Resonate Central Dispatch, v4.0 |
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| LVS |
Linux Virtual Server, v0.9.6 |
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| TCS |
TurboLinux TurboCluster, v6.0 |
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| MSFT |
Microsoft AppCenter Server 2000 |
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