Note: The LoadMaster bare metal appliance is End-of-Sale (EoS) effective January 3rd, 2025. For existing customers, support for bare metal will continue till the End-of-Life (EoL) date. For further details, refer to the EOL Product Lifecycle Support Policy.

The LoadMaster is a purpose-built, hardware load balancing and Application Delivery Controller (ADC).

The LoadMaster enables data center clusters which power Internet sites and large intranets to intelligently and efficiently distribute network traffic among web and application servers. A resource optimization layer in front of applications and infrastructure servers gives IT administrators greater control to adapt to network changes and enable the best network and infrastructure performance.

The LoadMaster delivers on these requirements through the inclusion of the latest advancements in Layer 4 and 7 load balancing, content switching, SSL acceleration, Layer 7 content switching, caching, compression, Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), IP and Layer 7 persistence. All Progress Kemp load balancers are optimized for a broad range of IP applications including core Microsoft Enterprise workloads such as Exchange, Lync, SharePoint, RDS and Dynamics.