Hardware Vs Virtual Load Balancers

whats the difference

[Ronanwals]

Hey, Just wondering if anybody has any experience with load balancers.

What is the main difference between the hardware Vs Virtual load balancers, I have been looking at Kemp Technologies load balancers (virtual and hardware)but they seem to be the same bar set up.

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[J_RaD]

it looks like hardware will be on your premise, and the Virtual is to be used in the Azure cloud.

do you have the networking infra to run your own?

[Leapswitch Ashish]

Both Hardware Load Balancer work the same way but Hardware load balancer offers more flexible configurable options compared to a software Load Balancer. It generally depends upon the requirement and budget of clients. There are many Hardware Load balancers available in the market like Baracudda while HA Proxy is a popular software based load balancer.