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The SysMaster 5000 is a self-contained plug-and-play
network management appliance for business-critical local Internet
sites or data centers. It is designed to satisfy the needs of medium-sized
businesses. It provides automatic and intelligent management of
Internet traffic delivering high levels of web site reliability,
scalability, speed and monitoring.
- Up to 800 Mb/s throughput
- 20,000 connections/sec. per device
- Scaling to over 1 million concurrent connections
- Virtually unlimited support for network devices including web
servers, firewalls, cache servers, routers, LDAP, VPN, DB, application
servers and more
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- A high availability loadbalancing device for servers, caches,
firewalls, VPN gateways and more;
- NAT, Direct Path Routing and Global IP tunneling for advanced
loadbalancing;
- Provides persistence mode for enhanced security and reliability;
- Dual Config options for additional performance and availability;
- Advanced security features for diverting well known malicious
web attacks;
- Proxy Servers Load Balancing;
- Advanced network monitoring with statistics and trending of
Internet traffic through the SysMaster Web GUI Console;
- IP, Port and Protocol based loadbalancing:
- Traffic prioritization and rate shaping for efficient bandwidth
allocation;
- Direct Routing optional mode that allows servers to bypass
SysMaster 5000 when returning traffic to client for faster
return responses;
- Global IP Tunneling feature for geographically distributed
networks and services;
- Full TCP/IP protocol support, including UDP;
- Bi-directional Secure Network Address Translation (SNAT);
- SysMaster Web GUI console for traffic monitoring and trending
for your entire network;
- Optional GB Ethernet interfaces.
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Viable Solution for the Internet
The SysMaster 5000 addresses the
increased demand for web site availability and performance. It is
a highly efficient, multifunctional, and cost effective network
device for cluster management and intelligent loadbalancing. SysMaster
5000 transparently distributes Internet traffic among servers and
firewalls providing reliable, fast, secure and flexible network
infrastructure solutions. Thanks to its robust and versatile features,
users have the option to choose the infrastructure implementation
that satisfies their needs most. Furthermore, the device has a quick
and easy setup and configuration procedure that allows even people
with limited network experience to install and manage it.
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High Availability and Reliability
The SysMaster 5000 guarantees consistent cluster performance and
full server fault tolerance. This is achieved by removing single
points of failure and possible bottleneck effects in the network
solutions, as well as implementing solid security algorithms. The
SysMaster 5000 provides high availability to server arrays by means
of:
Server-level Health Detection
SysMaster constantly monitors the status of your servers. Web
traffic is directed only to healthy servers, guaranteeing the
best Quality of Service to your clients.
Service-level Health Detection
SysMaster constantly monitors the status of your applications
(services) running on your servers. Web traffic is directed only
to servers with healthy services, guaranteeing the best Quality
of Service to your clients.
Dual Configurations
SysMaster can additionally work in configuration together with
secondary SysMaster devices to act as backup if the primary device
fails or goes down. For dual configurations, SysMaster works in
active/active and active/standby modes.
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High Scalability
The SysMaster 5000 offers exceptional scalability and flexibility.
- Server Level Scalability
Additional servers can be added to the cluster on the
fly, or they can be taken out of service for upgrade or maintenance
without disrupting or affecting the quality of service.
- Traffic Level Scalability
When web traffic increases, you can easily add another server
to the cluster to achieve the necessary performance gain instead
of upgrading to expensive hardware. This way, your web site infrastructure
can easily grow along with the demand for its services, while
protecting investments made in existing hardware.
- Platform Level Scalability
The SysMaster platform offers easy integration with multiple heterogeneous
hardware platforms, allowing organizations to protect their investments
in legacy hardware installations, as well as easily integrate
future hardware investments.
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High Manageability
The SysMaster 5000 is easy to set up, and easy to manage. The SysMaster
5000 is a self-contained 'plug and play' appliance that doesn't
require the additional overhead of software installation on your
servers. Network management is made easier, too, because administrators
can deploy new servers and take individual servers off-line for
routine maintenance without disrupting service to end users.
Secure Management
The SysMaster 5000 provides secured interface for management by
means of a robust authentication mechanism for granting access
to system resources implemented through Access Control Lists.
SysMaster management consoles provide the tools for access and
management of all device settings. SysMaster has two management
consoles - web based and VGA menu based.
Simplified Management
The SysMaster 5000 centralizes the management of server resources
and devices such as firewalls, proxy servers and caches. End users
are directed to a single virtual address, easing network administration
and maintenance.
Easy Installation and Serviceability
The SysMaster 5000 can be installed in almost any type of network
environment. There are no internal or external interface limitations;
there are just ports with features assigned. This gives the network
administrator the flexibility to install the SysMaster 5000 on
the network, and easily configure features for any port. The service
and upgrade of the software core of SysMaster can be easily and
security administered from the web console. In addition, the SysMaster
5000 provides all necessary ports for hooking up a keyboard and
monitor for on-site configuration.
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SysMaster 5000 as a Traffic Monitor
SysMaster displays a detailed graphical representation of the traffic
that goes through it. Network administrators receive data about
the type of traffic as well as traffic statistics showing how it
changes in time and the number of managed connections by the device
that helps them understand site's performance in order to efficiently
optimize their resources.
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Comprehensive Web Management GUI Console
SysMaster comes with a comprehensive Web management GUI console
to facilitate the configuration and maintenance of enterprise networks.
This utility provides detailed statistical information about the
traffic loads of your network, and gives estimated traffic load
increases and decreases for achieving maximum efficiency of your
servers.
Due to its modern technology design and extensive
set of features, the SysMaster 5000 offers one extremely flexible
and cost effective solution to Internet Enterprises that is easy
to setup, manage and maintain. Using SysMaster, corporations can
effectively service tens of thousands of simultaneous connections
to their domain servers. The device allows unlimited server clustering
which results in improved overall performance, while reducing the
need of future investments and maintenance overhead dramatically.
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SysMaster 5000 as a Load Balancer
High-volume web sites usually consist of multiple servers or server
clusters providing the same service from synchronized contents.
With SysMaster 5000, all these servers are addressed from the Internet
using a single Virtual IP address. SysMaster loadbalances the traffic
for this IP among the servers based upon the workload and the processing
capabilities of the individual servers. SysMaster uses both static
and dynamic algorithms for optimized loadbalancing.
Direct-Path Routing mode for High Speed
loadbalancing
SysMaster takes into account the individual capabilities of every
server. This allows administrators to put servers with varying
capabilities in one cluster thus obtaining optimum performance
and high utilization of the available resources along with investment
costs reduction. To increase the overall throughput of the server
cluster, the SysMaster 5000 implements the Direct-Path Routing
technique allowing servers to send responses directly to the clients
without passing traffic through the loadbalancing device.
NAT loadbalancing
The great advantage of NAT is that real servers can run any OS
that supports TCP/IP protocol. The only requirement for the real
servers is that they should use SysMaster as their default gateway.
Another advantage is that real servers use private IP addresses
and ports, which increases security and conserves real IP addresses.
Advanced Flexibility - Huge variety of balanced
traffic
SysMaster supports the following IP Protocols:
Web (http), FTP, UDP, DNS, E-Mail, LDAP, TCP,
SSL, Streaming Audio, Streaming Video and others.
Advanced Flexibility - Huge variety of balanced
devices
SysMaster allows for loadbalancing a vast number of different
types of network devices:
- Web servers;
- Firewalls;
- Routers;
- Cache servers;
- Proxy servers;
- Multimedia servers;
- VPN;
- NFS;
- LDAP servers;
- Others.
Security
SysMaster has an inherently high level of security because
using it, administrators can build high performance server arrays
that can failover easily. This is a much more viable and scalable
solution than using only one or two powerful but expensive servers
whose failure can be critical.
Persistence
SysMaster integrates another feature allowing your users to resume
their connection to the same server they communicated with. SysMaster
offers two modes of persistence: Source-Server and
Mega Proxy Sever Persistence - Big enterprises and
ISPs use loadbalancing across multiple proxy servers to connect
to the Internet.
High Speed
Direct-Path Routing Performance
The SysMaster 5000 includes a loadbalancing mode called Direct-Path
Routing. This mode allows servers to bypass SysMaster when returning
traffic to the client. This method allows for supporting an
increased number of simultaneous connections that translates
to greater throughput of your services as a whole.
Easy Performance Upgrades
Internet traffic demands are advancing rapidly. SysMaster 5000
is ready, thanks to its unique hardware/software module design
which allows organizations to achieve performance gains without
having to upgrade expensive hardware.
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Global Scalability and Availability
The unique architecture of the SysMaster 5000 allows loadbalancing
to be performed on both a local and global basis. Utilizing the
Global IP Tunneling feature of SysMaster, real servers can be geographically
distributed, maintaining uninterruptible service even when site-wide
failure occurs.
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SysMaster 5000 as a Network Cache Controller
The SysMaster 5000 loadbalances user requests to the cache server
best able to process the requests. If the requested data is not
available locally, the Proxy server fetches it from the Internet
and then redirects it to the end user that requested it. The whole
process remains totally invisible to the end user. SysMaster facilitates
this process by efficiently decreasing the latency time from requesting
Internet content to actually receiving it.
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Firewall and Security Module
The firewall module of SysMaster acts in both incoming and outgoing
directions. Network administrators can grant Internet access for
corporate networks only to selected "trusted" locations, or public
access can be limited to selected "safe" services. On the other
hand, outgoing traffic can also be filtered to protect valuable
data.
Security
SysMaster provides solid security to Enterprise networks utilizing
various security mechanisms.
Extensive set of attacks that SysMaster
handles
SysMaster is designed to protect itself from attacks
and provide protection for the servers being loadbalanced. Basic
functionalities include:
- Specially designed core software for advanced
security;
- Packet Filtering (IPFW);
- Security script identifies any services/ports
being probed;
- Default deny device - tight control of traffic
allowed to pass through;
- Administration through Access Control Lists;
- Protects itself and servers from ICMP attack
(thwarts ping attacks);
- Can reap idle connections (thwarts Denial of
Service attacks);
- Can perform source route tracing (thwarts IP
spoofing);
- Unacknowledged SYN without ACK buffers (thwarts
SYN floods);
- Thwarts teardrop and land attacks;
- Can map well known ports to any ports on the
servers (Port mapping);
- Real Servers IP addresses can be hidden from
the public;
- Not running SMTPd, FTPd, or any other attackable
daemons.
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Router/Gateway Module - SysMaster 5000 as a
Gateway in NAT mode
SysMaster 5000 connects local corporate networks to the Internet.
Corporate computers have private IP addresses and are not directly
accessible from the global network. LAN users access the Internet
through SysMaster 5000. SysMaster rewrites packets as they pass
through it, so that they always seem to come from the device itself.
It then rewrites the responses so that they can reach the original
recipient.
SysMaster allows for all managed servers to be visible
via a Virtual IP, and on specified ports that can be easily enabled
and filtered, resulting in enhanced security.
In Network Address Translation mode, well-known
ports such as 80, 443, 20, and 21 can be mapped to any port number
on the actual servers. This provides greater security by making
it difficult for intruders to identify what services are running
on which port.
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Quality of Service Module - Bandwidth Management
and
Denial of Service Prevention.
The SysMaster 5000 uses IP QoS together with TCP
and UDP level filtering to implement Bandwidth Management
and Denial of Service Prevention.
Bandwidth Management - SysMaster manages
incoming and outgoing traffic by filtering traffic using specified
sets of filter parameters for refined bandwidth utilization and
restriction policies. The QoS module supports the DiffServ
protocol provisioning for the proper treatment of the DiffServ marked
IP packets throughout the core network of the Internet.
Denial of Service Prevention
- SysMaster provides extended capabilities for filtering
out any malicious attacks based on TCP, UDP, IP, and ICMP protocols.
This greatly improves the security of your network resources, and
guarantees that such attacks will not disrupt the normal operation
of your systems.
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