HP Traffic Director sa7220 - Manual (Page 14)

C H A P T E R 1 HP Traffic Director Server Appliances User Guide
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Introduction to the Traffic Director Server
Appliances
The HP e-Commerce Traffic Director Server Appliance SA8200/
SA8220s and the HP Traffic Director Server Appliance SA7200/
SA7220s provide reliable load balancing, failover, and policy-based
management to Web sites, Intranets, and e-Commerce sites. These
models also include intelligent content routing, and are the best load
balancing solution available for the reasons shown below.
Feature Description
Reliability The SA8220 provides 7 x 24 uptime through failover systems and
the inherent robustness of leading network protocols.
Fault Resistance The SA8220-managed configurations offer many features and
capabilities that improve the availability and reliability of server-
based services.
Policy-based
Management The SA8220 allows system administrators to implement classes of
service, assign priority levels, and set target response times.
Intelligent Content
Routing (SA8200/
SA8220 only) The SA8220 takes application-aware routing to a new level with
the ability to segment Internet content according to the requested
URL.
Error Recovery Application intelligence allows the SA8220 to understand and
correct application errors transparently to the end user.
Secure Sockets Layer
Acceleration (SA8200/
SA8220 only) The SA8220 can offload encrypted web traffic (HTTPS) providing
a significant performance improvement over web server based
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) processing.