The primary vehicle driving data center infrastructure efficiency is virtualization. Running virtual servers eliminates the need to buy and maintain expensive hardware. It also increases ROI by driving economies of scale by sharing infrastructure resources.

Equalizer OnDemand™ is a software-based virtual appliance that operates as an integral part of the virtual infrastructure model. Equalizer OnDemand is deployed as a single virtual server instance dedicated to load balancing and managing the application delivery needs of your business. The EQ/OS 10 platform drives the robust application traffic management capabilities of the Virtual Equalizer.

Whether your goal is to control costs by leveraging processing capacity already in place, to build out a private cloud, or to create a backup data center for disaster recovery, Equalizer OnDemand is the right solution to optimize your virtual infrastructure and application delivery resources.

Resource Efficiency with Uncompromising Application Delivery

Coyote Point understands the role of virtualization in network resource efficiency. When you deploy a Virtual Equalizer you gain additional ROI on unused hardware in your data center. Equalizer offers businesses complete control of application availability and scalability and makes capacity optimization easy in an all-virtual environment. Equalizer OnDemand instances can be deployed on a single server to maximize utilization of hardware infrastructure, and current server platforms can be used for load balancing and other application delivery needs without creating dependence on specific server hardware.

Network and server administrators can deliver maximum performance for virtualized mission-critical services and applications. CFOs can appreciate operating at peak performance, reaping the return on investment that comes with improved server efficiency and 100% availability of applications and services.

Features	Benefits
Based on the Award Winning, Enterprise grade EQ/OS 10 architecture	Ensures scalability and availability for today’s complex mission critical virtualized applications
Intelligent, layer 4-7 application-based load balancing	Predictable, reliable and consistent application performance
Flexible Hybrid network support	Mix hardware and virtual Equalizer ADC appliances to best meet your specific application delivery challenges
Optimized for VMware Virtualized environments - retrieves real-time resource metrics from VMware vSphere™	Take full advantage of the cost and energy saving benefits of virtualization technology

Choosing Between a Virtual or Hardware ADC Appliance

Coyote Point can help you realize the efficiencies you need to scale your applications with physical, virtual or hybrid ADC configurations. Equalizer hardware appliances are purpose-built hardware, optimized for specific application delivery environments. When application acceleration such as high capacity SSL offloading or compression is required for bandwidth considerations, a hardware based Equalizer will offer the best performance. If you have a specific application that requires sophisticated traffic management, either the physical or virtual equalizer will meet your needs.

If you are working to implement the ultimate flexibility of a completely virtual application delivery network, Equalizer OnDemand delivers the capabilities you need in a completely virtual package.

Equalizer OnDemand Performance and Capacity *
Runtime Environment	VMware® ESX/ESXi v4.X
Concurrent Connections	2 Million
L7 HTTP Requests per second	up to 100,000
L7 SSL/HTTPS Requests per second	up to 50,000
Aggregate Throughput	up to 1Gbps
Licensed Clusters	Unlimited License
Servers per Cluster	512
Maximum Servers	Unlimited License
Network Topologies	Full-NAT, Half-NAT, VLAN, Direct Server Return (DSR)
IP Address Families	IPv4, IPv6
* All benchmarks are based on lab tests to determine the maximum performance from the system tested. Because Equalizer OnDemand can run on a variety of customer-supplied hosts, your mileage may vary.

Equalizer OnDemand runs as a guest VM under any VMware Hypervisor which supports Version 7 virtual machines. It has been tested on the following VMware products:

• VMware ESX 4.1
• VMware ESXi 4.1, 5.0
• VMware Fusion 3.1.2, 3.1.3
• VMware Player 3.1.4

Each instance of Equalizer OnDemand requires the following hardware resources:

• 1GB RAM (in addition to RAM required for the host platform)
• 1GB free disk space
• 1 VMware supported 10/100/1000Gb Network Adapter
• Internet connectivity for license validation

Manageability made simple

Based on the EQ/OS 10 platform, Equalizer OnDemand offers all of the enhancements in Management, security, availability, speed and connectivity that set our products apart from the competition. Regardless of which product you choose, Equalizer always takes the complexity out of application traffic management.

Redundancy and Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB)

More and more disaster recovery sites are being deployed with a virtualized infrastructure. Envoy™ is the Global Server Load-Balancing engine that runs on the virtual Equalizer. By also virtualizing the Global server load balancing (GSLB) you eliminate the need for additional hardware appliances and further decrease the cost of guaranteeing application availability in a multi-data center deployment. Envoy provides inter-site high-availability between data centers and completes the application delivery solution of the Equalizer OnDemand.

Scalability and availability is achieved across every server cluster anywhere, minimizing network latency and ensuring optimum application delivery. Equalizer OnDemand is more than cost effective load-balancing. It's a strategically sound business solution that puts users' needs first.