The Alteon VA™ is a fully-functional ADC solution which provides an application-aware approach to deploying and managing applications. It allows the application full availability, maximum performance and complete security while extracting more value from IT investments in IBM. Radware’s Alteon VA is packaged as a virtual appliance running on various server virtualization infrastructure such as VMware ESX/ESXi, KVM, OpenXen, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) and others. It provides identical functionality to Alteon physical ADC devices including local and global server load balancing, Layer 7 capabilities and application acceleration. Undisrupted availability via local and global server load balancing. Radware Alteon VA ensures absolute 24x7 uptime and effective disaster recovery (DR) for local and globally dispersed applications, at all times. By utilizing advanced health checks, traffic redirection, persistency, and content modification capabilities, it guarantees transaction completion through real-time identification and bypassing of any faulty element along the transaction path. In addition, Radware’s global server load balancing (GSLB) service ensures the global availability of all applications.