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Zeus ZXTM LB
High Performance Load Balancing for Networked and
Web-Enabled Applications
High Performance Load Balancing for Networked and
Web-Enabled Applications
ZXTM LB adds load balancing and resilience to your services, with high-performance SSL and content compression, content-aware traffic management rules and flexible health monitoring. It offers a low-cost starting point, with a smooth and cost-effective upgrade path to scale as your service grows.
ZXTM LB improves the performance, reliability and scalability of networked and web-enabled applications through a combination of SSL and WAN offload, content compression, performance and health monitoring, and automatic failover in the event of hardware or software failure. CPU-intensive processing such as SSL can be offloaded onto ZXTM LB to free up application servers such as BEA WebLogicTM and IBM WebSphereTM to do their own specialist tasks, greatly enhancing their performance and your return on investment.
ZXTM LB can be deployed in active / active clusters to protect you against hardware failures
Each ZXTM LB monitors the health of its paired unit, and each of the back-end servers.
Incoming traffic is processed by ZXTM LB
RuleBuilder™ rules are used to route each request to an appropriate server pool
RuleBuilder™ rules are used to route each request to an appropriate server pool
The traffic is distributed across the server pool using the appropriate load balancing algorithm.
ZXTM LB is a multi-capability solution combining:
RuleBuilder™ — for making content-aware load balancing and routing decisions
Server Load Balancing providing Layer 7 traffic management for all applications
Application Acceleration for enhanced ROI on new and existing deployments
High-performance SSL for end-to-end security
HTTP Content Compression for improved performance and bandwidth savings
Active / active resilience to protect against hardware failures
Multiple session persistence modes to ensure session integrity
Service Protection Policies for hardening of vulnerable application services
Comprehensive traffic visualization for trend analysis and fault isolation
Server health monitoring to detect and route around problem servers
Secure web-based UI for advanced cluster diagnosis and troubleshooting
Unlimited content inspection of TCP and UDP protocols for greater application awareness
SIP, RTSP, IPv6 fully supported at no additional cost
Tech Specs
| Scalability | |
Active/Active + Active / Passive |
Yes |
Traffic Cluster Size |
2 Active Units |
Application Cluster size |
4, 12, or Unlimited (options) |
Load Balancing |
|
Supported Protocols |
Yes |
Layer‐7 load balancing |
Yes |
Session Persistence |
Yes |
SSL decryption and encryption |
Yes |
Application Health Monitoring |
Yes |
Traffic Management |
|
Traffic Management rules: |
RuleBuilder™ rules |
Rate Shaping |
No |
XML processing |
No |
SOAP Control API |
No |
Content Caching |
No |
Bandwidth Management |
No |
Service Level Monitoring |
No |