Array Networks APV3600V5
Application Delivery Controllers

Features:

Availability, Performance & Security

APV Series physical and virtual appliances are deployed in front of Web and application servers to distribute traffic, scale server pools, maintain persistence and accelerate applications. In addition, Array ADCs act as both a strategic point of control and a first line of defense for business-critical applications and services.

Array application delivery controllers are ideal for ensuring availability, performance and security for internal users on private networks, as well as end-users accessing Web-based applications and cloud services over the Internet.

Each Array ADC shares an all-inclusive feature set for simple, cost-effective ordering, and is available with your choice of software or hardware SSL acceleration.

Highlights & Benefits

Integrated Layer-4 and Layer-7 server load balancers, link load balancers, global server load balancers, connection multiplexing, SSL acceleration, caching, compression, traffic shaping, IPv6 and Web application security High-performance, kernel-level Layer-7 policy engine for enabling customizable application traffic management without impacting performance or scalability 2048-bit SSL with advanced client certificate handing for secure application support and easy application integration Multi-level security including a hardened OS, reverse-proxy architecture and kernel-level Web firewall for guarding applications without impacting performance Delivers 99.999% application availability, up to 5x application acceleration and provides a first line of defense for Web-enabled applications and cloud services Offloads Web and application servers for increased efficiency, capacity and return on investment (ROI) Intelligently load balances traffic across optimal WAN links to reduce costs and improve the performance of business critical applications

Application-specific certifications, guides and policies for rapid deployment and accelerated delivery of business critical enterprise applications ePolicy™ L7 application scripting and eRoute™ L4 routing for custom control of application traffic IPv6 gold certified for IPv4 preservation, IPv4/6 translation and IPv6 migration OpenStack load balancing-as-a-service (LBaaS) integration, Array eCloud™ SOAP API and XML-RPC for seamless interaction with cloud management systems and 3rd party monitoring solutions Extensible SOAP API for ease of integration with VMware vCenter Orchestrator and Microsoft System Center N+1 clustering for up to 32 hardware or virtual instances, single system image and stateful TCP failover for industry-leading availability and scalability Familiar CLI, intuitive WebUI and centralized management for ease of use and configuration

Product Description

Server Load Balancing
APV Series application delivery controllers ensure 99.999% uptime for applications and services. Leveraging robust distribution algorithms, health check mechanisms, clustering and failover capabilities, APV Series appliances maintain connections, ensure persistence, direct traffic away from failed servers and intelligently distribute application services across multiple servers for optimized performance and availability.

Layer-7 Policy Engine
Customized traffic management is often a trade-off between performance, control and ease-of-use. Unlike ADCs that rely on complex, computeintensive scripting to enable custom Layer-7 policies, Array supports a vast library of policies that are hard-coded at the kernel level, are configurable with point-and-click simplicity via the WebUI or CLI, and can be combined and nested to create advanced customized application traffic management. With Array's unique approach to Layer-7 traffic management, customers get the best of all worlds: ease-of-use, granular control and superior performance and scalability.

2048-Bit SSL Acceleration
SSL acceleration reduces the number of servers required for secure applications, improves server efficiency and dramatically improves application performance.

Offloading compute-intensive key exchange and bulk encryption, and delivering industry-leading client-certificate performance, SSL acceleration is ideal for scaling secure SaaS services, e-commerce environments and business-critical applications requiring high-volume secure connectivity.

Although more secure than the old 1024-bit standard, 2048-bit keys are five times more compute intensive and can impact both performance and the cost of supporting applications. Array 2048 and 4096-bit SSL encryption offers unbeatable scalability and performance with the lowest-cost per SSL TPS to offset transition costs and improve security without impacting performance.

WebWall Web Application Security
With WebWall™, Array's suite of Web application security capabilities, APV Series application delivery controllers can protect against denial of service (DoS) and malformed URL attacks and allow a wide range of Layer 2 through Layer 7 protective policies to be stacked atop one another for increased security.

APV appliances are security-hardened to protect applications and servers from L4 and L7 DDoS attacks and support content filtering to guard against Syn-flood, tear drop, ping-of-death, Nimda, Smurf and other malicious attacks. APV appliances also feature extensive access control lists, network address translation and stateful packet flow inspection – all executed at the kernel level – to guard against attacks and unauthorized access without impacting performance or scalability.

In addition, integrated Web application firewall capabilities provide deep application data inspection – beyond IP and TCP headers – to deal with attacks such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting. Deployable in front of multiple Web or application servers, Array's Web application firewall detects and responds to signatures for known application vulnerabilities and is programmable to deal with future threats.

Link Load Balancing & GSLB
Link load balancing (LLB) and global server load balancing (GSLB) ensure 99.999% availability for wide area network (WAN) connections and geographically dispersed sites. Link load balancing with end-to-end health monitoring and dynamic routing detects outages and monitors performance in real time to distribute traffic across multiple WAN connections for a premium, always-on end-user experience. Ideal for geographically distributed applications and multi-site architectures, global server load balancing directs traffic away from failed data centers and intelligently distributes services between sites based on proximity, language, capacity, load and response times for maximum performance and availability.

Application Acceleration
APV Series appliances leverage multiple acceleration technologies and optimizations to deliver a premium end-user experience for a wide range of applications and data services. Inmemory caching increases server efficiency and improves seek and response times by over 500%, hardware and software compression can reduce bandwidth utilization and end-user response times by more than half and TCP connection multiplexing aggregates millions of short-lived client connections into persistent fast lanes that increase server efficiency by up to 70% while improving application performance.

ePolicy L7 Application Scripting
Where Array's Layer-7 policy engine cannot meet application traffic management requirements, ePolicy scripting allows transactions and content to be manipulated to achieve traffic distribution that improves data center efficiency and mitigates the effect of delivering applications over the Internet.

eRoute L4 Routing
Using eRoute, inbound and outbound WAN traffic may be load balanced across multiple ISP links based on preset and user-defined algorithms and directed across routes optimized for maximum stability and performance. Additional L4 traffic management features include VLANs, port forwarding, port and link redundancy and the ability to bundle multiple low-cost links to improve bandwidth utilization and reduce costs.

Application-Specific Certifications
In conjunction with ISVs and application developer partners, Array APV Series appliances have been certified to provide load balancing, acceleration and security for enterprise applications such as Microsoft Lync 2010 and 2013, Microsoft Exchange 2010 and 2013, SAP, Oracle, eClinicalWorks and others. Leveraging deployment guides, businesses can take the guesswork out of application delivery. Following simple step by step instructions, IT can rapidly and confidently configure APV appliances for optimized delivery of business critical applications.

Traffic Shaping & QoS
Traffic shaping optimizes application traffic on WAN links to improve bandwidth utilization and end-user response times. Supporting user-defined policies, APV Series appliances prevent bandwidth-intensive applications from over-utilizing WAN links and ensure essential applications are prioritized to meet service level agreements. Used in conjunction with link load balancing, global server load balancing and QoS features such as filters and CBQs, traffic shaping can dramatically improve application performance.

IPv6 Support
For organizations needing an IPv6 Web presence, server load balancing protocol translation (SLBPT) transforms existing IPv4 Web sites into IPv6 compatible sites and greatly reduces the need for duplicate equipment, content and management. Where there is a need to make the most of depleted IPv4 resources, NAT and dual NAT (dual-stack IPv6) allow multiple clients to utilize a single IPv4 address. In migration environments, Array IPv6 solutions support both NAT64 and DNS64 to enable IPv6 clients to connect with IPv4 servers and content. To ensure a consistent application experience across IPv4 and IPv6 clients and networks – and to enable fully-capable, next-generation solutions – IPv6 feature parity is supported for all Array APV Series application delivery controllers.

Management & Integration
APV Series application delivery controllers are simple to install and offer intuitive configuration and management via a WebUI and a familiar command line interface. Using the administration tool kit, network managers can view the status for a wide range of system parameters, enable services on the fly and automate configuration using XML-RPC. Leveraging extensible APIs, application and network intelligence can be integrated with third-party monitoring and management or exported for optimizing complementary data center systems. In addition, APV Series appliances support VMware vCenter integration for intelligent command and control of virtualized application infrastructure.

eCloud APIs & OpenStack Integration
To meet the deployment and management requirements of load balancing and application delivery in the cloud, Array's eCloud API provides a script-level interface for cloud management systems to manage and monitor Array devices and assist in interactions between cloud operating systems and virtual machines running Array load balancing. For cloud providers and enterprises leveraging the OpenStack architecture for cloud management and automation, Array's integration with OpenStack load balancing-as-a-service (LBaaS) creates a standardized means to rapidly integrate with and control Array technology.

Product Editions
APV Series hardware appliances support two app delivery product editions. AppVelocity supports a rich server load balancing and application acceleration feature set optimized for local traffic management. AppVelocity-S combines high-performance SSL acceleration with server load balancing and application acceleration to create a traffic management solution ideal for ecommerce environments and applications requiring a high-degree of Secure connectivity. Both AppVelocity and AppVelocity-S product editions include link load balancing and support global server load balancing as an option. vAPV virtual appliances bundle all Array load balancing and application delivery features and support GSLB as an option.

Physical & Virtual Appliances
Dedicated APV appliances leverage a multicore architecture, SSDs, hardware SSL and compression, energy-efficient components and 10 GigE to create solutions purpose-built for scalable traffic management.

The APV10650 is available as an AVX10650 multitenant appliance that is capable of supporting up to 8 fully separate APV ADC instances – each with its own CPU, SSL, memory and I/O resources.

Available for common hypervisors, vAPV virtual appliances are ideal for organizations seeking to benefit from the flexibility of virtual environments, offer infrastructure services and new elastic business models or evaluate Array application delivery with minimal risk and up-front cost.

Product Features
Availability
Layer 2-7 Policy & Group Management	Multi-level virtual service policy routing – Static, default and backup policies and groups – Layer 2-7 application routing policies – Layer 2-7 server persistence – Application load balancing based on round robin, weighted round robin, least connections, shortest response and SNMP
Layer 2-3 Load Balancing	IP/MAC based load balancing for any IP protocol – Round robin, persistent IP and return to sender – Firewall, IPS/ IDS, anti-spam, anti-virus and composite applications
Layer 4 Load Balancing	TCP, TCPS and UDP protocols – Round robin, weighted round robin, least connections and shortest response – Persistent IP, hash IP, consistent hash IP, persistent IP + port and port range – All single port TCP applications, RADIUS and DNS server support – Composite IP application support
Layer 7 Load Balancing	HTTP/HTTPS, FTP/FTPS, SIP, RTSP and RDP – L7 content switching (QoS network and client port - SSL and SIP session ID - HTTP URL, host name, cookie and any header - hash header, cookie and query) – URL redirect and HTTP request/response rewrite – HTTP request filter
Server Persistence	Source + destination IP, Client IP, SSLID, HTTP header, URL, cookie, application – Individual session control
Content Routing & Switching	One arm, configurable reverse or transparent proxy mode per VIP – Configurable reverse or transparent proxy mode, triangle mode – Nested L7 and L4 policies – Combine L7 and L4 policies
Global Server Load Balancing	Application availability from multiple locations worldwide – DNS DoS protection – Global site/service selection – Proximity and IP persistence – Load balancing between multi-site SSL VPN deployments
Link Load Balancing	Outbound: round robin, weighted round robin, shortest response time, target proximity/dynamic detection – Inbound: round robin, weighted round robin, target proximity/dynamic detection – Integrated DNS
ePolicy L7 Application Scripting	Customize SLB policies and collaborate with SLB methods to realize load balancing among real services – Analyze packet contents of HTTP, simple object access protocol (SOAP), extensible markup language (XML) and diameter protocols – Receive, send, analyze, and discard generic TCP and TCPS packets – Perform pattern matching for text data – Control TCP connections – Monitor and take statistics of traffic
eRoute L4 Routing	Policy-based routing based on port, source/destination IP, UDP protocols, TCP – RIPv1, RIPv2 and OSPF support – Return to sender (RTS)/IP flow persistence – Port forwarding, link aggregation and port redundancy – Transparent to VPN remote access
Application, Server & Link Health Checks	ARP, ICMP, TCP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, Radius, RTSP, SIP single port/protocol health checks – Multi-port health checks – Health checks by protocol and content verification – Link health checks based on physical port, ICMP and user-defined L4 – Next gateway health checks, destination path health checks – Ensure availability and performance of applications over WAN links from a single point of management – Scriptable customer-defined composite health checks
Clustering	Up to 32 nodes – Active/active, active/standby – Configuration synchronization – Application-specific VIP health checks – Stateful TCP failover – Fast failover via USB ports – Automatic ISP failover
Single System Image	Create a single VIP (single ADC instance) out of any number of dedicated, multi-tenant or virtual APV appliances – Enable ultimate flexibility in scaling out
IPv6	Full IPv6 support – DNS64 & NAT64 – Dual Stack Lite – IPv6 to IPv4 and IPv4 to IPv6 NAT and full IPv6 addressing – IPv6 ready gold certified
Networking	Link aggregation, VLAN/MNET, NTP – Static and port-based NAT, advanced NAT for transparent use of multiple WAN links
Acceleration
Application Performance	Dynamic detect – Client connection persistence – Connection multiplexing – TCP buffering – IEEE 802.3ad link aggregation
SSL Acceleration (2048 & 4096-bit)	Hardware SSL processing – SSLv3 and TLSv1 – 4096-bit maximum cipher key size (RSA) – End-to-end security (Server-side SSL communication) – SSL session reuse and timeout control – Cipher strength reduction – Customizable cipher suite order – Customizable SSL error pages – Sharable to multiple SLB services – SSL self- check
Compression	Hardware accelerated – Virtualized compression – Inline HTTP processing – Compresses HTML, XML, Java scripts and CSS – Compresses Microsoft file formats (DOC, XLS, PPT) and PDF
Caching	Virtualized, memory-based cache – HTTP 1.1 compliant, policy-based cache
Traffic Shaping	Guarantees application performance – Rate shaping for setting user-defined rate limits on critical applications – QoS for traffic prioritization – Supports CBQs and borrow and unborrow bandwidth from queues – Advanced ACL (SLB QoS) – Supports QoS filters based on ports and protocols including TCP, UDP and ICMP
Security
WebWall Web Application Security	Hardened OS – Secure access only, access control based on client certificate information and access method – Customer configurable SSL/TLS version, cipher suite and minimum cipher strength – Tamper-proof key and certificate protection – WebWall stateful packet-inspection firewall – Over 1000 ACL rules without performance degradation – Proxy-based firewall – TCP syn-flood protection – Flash and surge event protection – DoS protection – HTTP access method control – URL filtering – HTTP/DNS cache for mitigating DDoS – Web Application Firewall – Deep application data inspection for dealing with attacks such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting – Detects and responds to known application vulnerabilities – Programmable to deal with future threats
DDoS Protection (SLB)	Protocol Attacks: SSL invalid packet, SSL handshake attack, HTTP invalid packet attack – Application Attacks: HTTP slow attack, HTTP flood attack, bandwidth consumption attack – DDoS attack logging
Client-Server Certificate Management	CSR and private key generation – Self-signed certificate support – Import certificate and private key – Import certificate format – Extensive certificate support – Certificate backup and restore – Wildcard certificate support
Client Certificate Authentication & Authorization	Turbo client certificate verification – Root and intermediate CA import – Basic client certificate verification – Certificate chain support – Certificate revocation list (HTTP, FTP, LDAP) – Online certificate status protocol (OCSP, HTTP/HTTPS) – Certificate-based access control – Inside SSL server, two-way certificates
Client Certificate Application Integration	Parse client certificate field information with different language/encoding – Pass individual field/group and field/ customer format to back-end applications – HTTP header, URL and cookie – Integrated with proxy rewrite – Detailed SSL statistics
Management
System	Centralized cluster management – Secure CLI, WebUI and SSH remote management – XML-RPC for integration with 3rd party management and monitoring – SNMP V2/V3 and private MIBs – Syslog (UDP or TCP) – Administrator and operator account management – E-mail, paging and alerting capability – Multiple configuration files and unit configuration synchronization – Online troubleshooting – Realtime monitoring – Role-based administration control
eCloud API	Interface for cloud management systems to control and monitor hardware and virtual APV appliances – Assists interaction between components such as virtual machines in CloudOS environments – Remote management of interaction between components such as virtual machines in CloudOS environments – Remote management of APV appliances – Notification of events on APV appliances – eCloud demo integrated on APV appliance – APV appliances – Notification of events on APV appliances – eCloud demo integrated on APV appliance – Supports integration with OpenStack Load Balancing-as-a-Service (LBaaS) standard Supports integration with OpenStack Load Balancing-as-a-Service (LBaaS) standard

Specifications:

Array Application Delivery Architecture

	AppVelocity		AppVelocity-S
	APV 1600/1600T APV 1600/1600T/2600	APV 3600/3650/5600/6600/7600/10650/11600	APV 1600/1600T/2600	APV 3600/3650/5600/6600/7600/10650/11600
L2, L4 & L7 SLB	Standard	Standard	Standard	Standard
LLB	Standard	Standard	Standard	Standard
GSLB	Optional	Optional	Optional	Optional
L7 Policy Engine	Standard	Standard	Standard	Standard
ePolicy Scripting	Standard	Standard	Standard	Standard
eRoute Routing	Standard	Standard	Standard	Standard
Transparent Proxy	Standard	Standard	Standard	Standard
SSL (SW)	Standard	Standard	N/A	N/A
SSL (HW)	N/A	N/A	Standard	Standard
Compression (SW)	Standard	Standard	Standard	Standard
Compression (HW)		Optional		Optional
RAM Caching	Standard	Standard	Standard	Standard
Traffic Shaping	Standard	Standard	Standard	Standard
Web Application Security (Including WAF)	Standard	Standard	Standard	Standard
IPv6 Support	Standard	Standard	Standard	Standard
Multi-language WebUI	Standard	Standard	Standard	Standard
Single System Image	Standard	Standard	Standard	Standard
Fast Failover	Standard	Standard	Standard	Standard
Clustering	Standard	Standard	Standard	Standard
eCloud API & LBaaS Integration	Standard	Standard	Standard	Standard

	APV1600/1600T	APV2600	APV3600/3650	APV5600	APV6600	APV6600 FIPS	APV7600	APV10650	APV11600
Max. L4 Throughput	2 Gbps/2.5 Gbps	10 Gbps	20 Gbps/30 Gbps	15 Gbps	35 Gbps	35 Gbps	80 Gbps	120 Gbps	140 Gbps
Max. SSL TPS (2048)	2K/2K	5K	25K/25K	25K	25K	9K	70K	70K	70K
Max. SSL Throughput	700 Mbps/1 Gbps	3 Gbps	15 Gbps/15 Gbps	10 Gbps	20 Gbps	2 Gbps	4.5 Gbps	40 Gbps	50 Gbps
1 GbE Copper	Standard	Standard	Standard	Standard	Standard	Standard	Optional	N/A	N/A
1 GbE Fiber	N/A	Optional	Standard	Optional	Optional	Optional	N/A	N/A	N/A
10 GbE Fiber	N/A	Optional	Standard	Standard	Standard	Standard	Standard	Standard	Standard
Power Supply	APV1600, 1600T, 2600		Single Power: 100-240VAC, 8-4A, 50-60Hz
	APV2600		Dual Power: 100-240VAC, 8-4A, 50-60Hz
	APV3600, 3650		Dual Power: 100-240VAC, 5-3A, 50-60Hz
	APV5600, 6600, 6600FIPS, 7600, 10650, 11600		Dual Power: 100-240VAC, 10-5A, 50-60Hz
Dimensions	APV1600, 1600T, 2600		Single Power: 1U – 17” W x 15” D x 1.75”
	APV2600, 3600, 3650		Dual Power: 1U – 17” W x 19.875” D x 1.75” H
	APV5600, 6600, 6600FIPS, 7600, 10650, 11600		Dual Power: 2U – 17” W x 22.5” D x 3.5” H
Weight	APV1600, 1600T, 2600		Single Power: 13.6 lbs
	APV2600		Dual Power: 17.2 lbs.
	APV3600, 3650		Dual Power: 19.8 lbs
	APV5600, 6600, 6600FIPS, 7600, 10650, 11600		Dual Power: 28 lbs.
Environmental	Operating Temperature: 0° to 45°C, Humidity: 0% to 90%, Non condensing
Regulatory Compliance	ICES-003, EN 55024, CISPR 22, AS/NZS 3548, FCC, 47FR part 15 Class A, VCCI-A, APV6600FIPS only: FIPS140-2 Level 2
Safety	CSA, C/US, CE, IEC 60950-1, CSA 60950-1, EN 60950-1
Support	Gold, Silver and Bronze Level Support Plans
Warranty	1 Year Hardware, 90 Days Software
vAPV With the exception of hardware SSL acceleration, vAPV virtual application delivery controllers support all APV features.		VMware ESXi 4.1 or Later XenServer 5.6 or Later OpenXen 4.0 or Later KVM 1.1.1-1.8.1 or later Hyper-V (Windows Server 2012)				2 Virtual CPUs 4 Virtual Network Adapters 2GB RAM 40GB Disk

Documentation:

Download the Array Networks APV Series Application Delivery Controller Datasheet (PDF).

Features:

Server Load Balancing

APV x600 Series application delivery controllers ensure 99.999% availability for cloud services and enterprise applications. Leveraging robust distribution algorithms, health check mechanisms, clustering and failover capabilities, APV Series appliances maintain connections, ensure persistence, direct traffic away from failed servers and intelligently distribute application services across multiple servers for optimized performance and availability. APV Series can load balance traffic for a wide variety of protocols at Layers 2, 3, 4 and 7, including WebSocket.

Layer-7 Policy Engine

Customized traffic management is often a trade-off between performance, control and ease-of-use. Unlike ADCs that rely on complex, compute-intensive scripting to enable custom Layer-7 policies, Array supports a vast library of policies that are hard-coded at the kernel level, are configurable with point-and-click simplicity via the WebUI or CLI, and can be combined and nested to create advanced customized application traffic management. With Array’s unique approach to Layer-7 traffic management, customers get the best of all worlds: ease of use, granular control and superior performance and scalability.

SSL/TLS Acceleration & Offloading

The majority of internet traffic is now protected by SSL/TLS encryption, which ensures data privacy and integrity; however, SSL/TLS comes with a cost in terms of processing compute-intensive 2048-bit encryption. Array SSL offloading reduces the number of servers required for secure applications, improves server efficiency and dramatically improves application performance. The APV Series also simplifies SSL certificate/key management to enable intelligent content management and routing.

In addition, the APV Series provides SSL acceleration to offload compute-intensive key exchange and bulk encryption, and delivers industry-leading clientcertificate performance. SSL acceleration is ideal for scaling secure SaaS offerings, e-commerce environments, and business-critical applications that require high-volume secure connectivity.

The APV Series’ SSL/TLS engine includes advanced security to minimize the possibility of attacks, thus further enhancing the security of applications and servers. For example, if an SSL renegotiation attack is detected, the APV Series can disable SSL renegotiation or enable rate limiting. Secure SSL renegotiation is also supported. In addition, some applications may support only SSL 3.0 or TLS 1.x, which have proven to be vulnerable to attacks. The APV Series can bridge from current SSL/TLS versions to provide improved clientside security without requiring changes to the server or application.

APV Series SSL/TLS processing is performed in hardware to provide high performance and capacity, as well as industry-leading TCO.

SSL Intercept

SSL-encrypted data traffic is increasing rapidly, which can place data centers and enterprises at risk – in many cases, encrypted traffic cannot be inspected by security appliances such as firewalls, IDS/IPS, data loss prevention and deep packet inspection, thus bypassing these important security measures.

Array’s SSL Intercept capability decrypts SSL traffic, allowing 3rd-party appliances to inspect them fully, then re-encrypts before forwarding the traffic to its destination. Flexible deployment options include L2 or L3 mode, integrated or distributed mode, forward or reverse proxy, and load balancing across multiple 3rd-party security appliances. In addition, an APV Series ADC can operate as a Webagent service to implement explicit forward proxy mode for additional security.

As an option, the Webroot BrightCloud Threat Intelligence Service is available for the APV x600 Series. BrightCloud includes reputation services which protect users from malicious sites, as well as a web classification service to allow blacklisting of inappropriate sites and/or whitelisting of sites for which traffic must flow without inspection due to regulatory or other requirements – such as financial or healthcare sites that contain confidential personal information.

WebWall Web Application Firewall and DDoS Protection

With WebWall®, Array’s suite of web application security capabilities, APV Series application delivery controllers can protect against distributed denial of service (DoS/ DDoS) and malformed URL attacks and allow a wide range of Layer 2 through Layer 7 protective policies to be stacked atop one another for increased security.

APV appliances are security-hardened to protect applications and servers from L4 and L7 DDoS attacks and support content filtering to guard against protocol and application DDoS attacks at the application, session and network layers, as well as Syn-flood, tear drop, ping-of-death, Nimda, Smurf and other malicious attacks. In addition, Array’s DDoS protection features machine learning for anomaly detection and automatic configuration of threshold values. APV appliances also feature extensive access control lists, network address translation and stateful packet flow inspection – all executed at the kernel level – to guard against attacks and unauthorized access without impacting performance or scalability.

In addition, integrated web application firewall capabilities provide deep application data inspection – beyond IP and TCP headers – to deal with attacks such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting. Deployable in front of multiple web or application servers, Array’s web application firewall detects and responds to signatures for known application vulnerabilities and is programmable to deal with future threats.

Secure Application Access

Web-based and other applications typically require secure authentication in order to grant access to users; however, when users require access to multiple applications, or applications include subsystems that also require authentication, the process of logging in can become cumbersome and difficult. The APV Series supports Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) to allow user Single Sign-On (SSO) across multiple applications and subsystems. Serving as a SAML SP, the APV Series interacts with a SAML IdP (such as Array’s AG Series SSL VPN) to securely authenticate the user, thus simplifying and streamlining access.

Link Load Balancing & GSLB

Link load balancing (LLB) and global server load balancing (GSLB) ensure 99.999% availability for wide area network (WAN) connections and geographically dispersed sites and hybrid cloud environments. Link load balancing with end-to-end health monitoring and dynamic routing detects outages and monitors performance in real time to distribute traffic across multiple WAN connections for a premium, alwayson end-user experience. Ideal for geographically distributed applications, multi-site architectures and hybrid cloud applications, global server load balancing directs traffic away from failed data centers or cloud services and intelligently distributes services between sites based on proximity, language, capacity, load and response times for maximum performance and availability. In addition, Array’s GSLB supports mixed health check relationships across SDNS service pools, as well as EDNS-client-subnet to provide improved resolution services and thus improve the user experience.

Application Acceleration

APV Series appliances leverage multiple acceleration technologies and optimizations to deliver a premium end-user experience for a wide range of applications and data services. In-memory caching increases server efficiency and improves seek and response times by over 500%, hardware or software compression can reduce bandwidth utilization and end-user response times by more than half and TCP connection multiplexing aggregates millions of short-lived client connections into persistent fast lanes that increase server efficiency by up to 70% while improving application performance.

ePolicy L7 Application Scripting

Where Array’s Layer-7 policy engine cannot meet application traffic management requirements, ePolicy scripting allows transactions and content to be manipulated to achieve traffic distribution that improves data center efficiency and mitigates the effect of delivering applications over the internet.

eRoute L4 Routing

Using eRoute, inbound and outbound WAN traffic may be load balanced across multiple ISP links based on preset and user-defined algorithms and directed across routes optimized for maximum stability and performance. Additional L4 traffic management features include VLANs, port forwarding, port and link redundancy and the ability to bundle multiple low-cost links to improve bandwidth utilization and reduce costs.

Application-Specific Certifications

In conjunction with ISVs and application developer partners, Array APV Series appliances have been certified to provide load balancing, acceleration and security for enterprise applications such as Microsoft Lync 2010 and 2013, Microsoft Exchange 2010/2013/2016, SAP, Oracle, eClinicalWorks and others. Leveraging deployment guides, businesses can take the guesswork out of application delivery. Following simple step by step instructions, IT can rapidly and confidently configure APV appliances for optimized delivery of business critical applications.

Traffic Shaping & QoS

Traffic shaping optimizes application traffic on WAN links to improve bandwidth utilization and end-user response times. Supporting user-defined policies, APV Series appliances prevent bandwidth-intensive applications from over-utilizing WAN links and ensure essential applications are prioritized to meet service level agreements. Used in conjunction with link load balancing, global server load balancing and QoS features such as filters and class-based queuing, traffic shaping can dramatically improve application performance.

IPv6 Support

For organizations needing an IPv6 web presence, server load balancing protocol translation (SLB-PT) transforms existing IPv4 web sites into IPv6 compatible sites and greatly reduces the need for duplicate equipment, content and management. Where there is a need to make the most of depleted IPv4 resources, NAT and dual NAT (dual-stack IPv6) allow multiple clients to utilize a single IPv4 address. In migration environments, Array IPv6 solutions support both NAT64 and DNS64 to enable IPv6 clients to connect with IPv4 servers and content. To ensure a consistent application experience across IPv4 and IPv6 clients and networks – and to enable fully-capable, next-generation solutions – IPv6 feature parity is supported for all Array APV Series application delivery controllers.

Management & Integration

APV Series application delivery controllers are simple to install and offer intuitive configuration and management via a cloud-friendly, intuitive WebUI and a familiar command line interface. Using the administration tool kit, network managers can view the status for a wide range of system parameters, enable services on the fly and automate configuration using XML-RPC or RESTful API. Leveraging extensible APIs, application and network intelligence can be integrated with third-party and cloud monitoring and management or exported for optimizing complementary data center systems. In addition, APV Series appliances support VMware vRealize Orchestrator and Microsoft System Center integration for intelligent command and control of virtualized application infrastructure.

eCloud API & OpenStack Integration

To meet the deployment and management requirements of load balancing and application delivery in the cloud, Array’s eCloud API provides a script-level interface for cloud management systems to manage and monitor Array devices and assist in interactions between cloud operating systems and virtual machines running Array load balancing. For cloud providers and enterprises leveraging the OpenStack architecture for cloud management and automation, Array’s integration with OpenStack load balancing-as-a-service (LBaaS) creates a standardized means to rapidly integrate with and control Array technology.

Product Editions

APV x600 Series hardware appliances support three product editions. AppVelocity supports a rich server load balancing and application acceleration feature set optimized for local traffic management. AppVelocity-S combines SSL acceleration with server load balancing and application acceleration to create a traffic management solution ideal for SaaS, ecommerce environments and applications requiring a high degree of secure connectivity.

The AppVelocity-E edition is purpose-built to provide industry-leading throughput and transactions per second for elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) traffic. ECC is increasingly used as an alternative to RSA encryption. AppVelocity-E models deliver enhanced security for HTTPS traffic and superior ECC performance, along with the same, robust feature set included in AppVelocity-S.

All three AppVelocity product editions include link load balancing and support global server load balancing as an option. vAPV virtual appliances include all features and software modules found on Array’s APV Series application delivery controller dedicated appliances.

Physical & Virtual Appliances

Dedicated APV x600 Series appliances leverage a multi-core architecture, SSDs, software or hardware SSL and compression, energy-efficient components and 10 GigE to create solutions purpose-built for scalable traffic management. The APV6600FIPS model offers FIPS 140-2 Level 2 compliance for organizations that require a higher level of security. The next-generation APV x800 Series dedicated appliances are also available for customers that require higher performance, 40 GigE ports and advanced features supported only in the newer platforms.

Whether running on Array’s AVX Series Network Functions Platform, on common hypervisors or on many popular public cloud marketplaces, vAPV virtual appliances are ideal for organizations seeking to benefit from the flexibility of virtual environments, offer infrastructure services and new elastic business models or evaluate Array application delivery with minimal risk and up-front cost.

Specifications:

Documentation:

Download the Array Networks APVx600 Series Application Delivery Controller Datasheet (PDF).