Deployment Guides

Deploying Microsoft IIS with ZXTM

This deployment guide describes Zeus' best practices when load-balancing and managing traffic to applications hosted on Microsoft IIS.

It covers basic configuration of ZXTM, issues around L2 IP transparency and SSL certificates and offload.

Deploying Microsoft IIS with ZXTM

Deploying Microsoft Outlook Web Access with ZXTM

Outlook Web Access is commonly deployed to support mobile workers who need to access email, calendaring, task and contact information from a web-based client. These services are often business-critical, and a lack of availability may affect the productivity of large numbers of workers. ZXTM can be used to improve the availability of Microsoft Outlook Web Access. The simple configuration steps to do so are described in this deployment guide.

Deploying Microsoft Outlook Web Access with ZXTM

Deploying Microsoft SharePoint services with ZXTM

Microsoft SharePoint services provide an integrated suite of server capabilities for central storage and collaboration, space for documents, information and ideas.

By using ZXTM to load-balance and manage traffic across two or more clustered SharePoint servers, you can achieve dramatic improvements in capacity and reliability. Adding more SharePoint servers to your cluster will scale capacity linearly, and ZXTM's application acceleration technology - offloading, caching, HTTP optimization - increases the capacity improvements further. When you load-balance traffic across two or more SharePoint servers, you make the entire service resilient to routine downtime (upgrades and reboots) and unexpected errors (such as hardware failures).

Deploying Microsoft SharePoint services with ZXTM

Deploying Oracle Application Server with ZXTM

Oracle Application Server is an application platform suite that offers full support for J2EE, high-speed caching, rapid application development, enterprise portals, identity management, business intelligence, application and business integration, wireless capabilities, and more.

This document describes how to configure ZXTM to manage a cluster of Oracle Application servers. We will discuss load balancing the cluster members for reliability, offloading SSL connections to ZXTM for speed and efficiency, using ZXTM to manage session persistence and securing the Oracle Enterprise Manager administration tool.

Deploying Oracle Application Server with ZXTM

ZXTM in Virtualized Hosting Environments

This paper outlines ZXTM's capabilities within virtualized service-hosting environments. It gives deployment scenarios and future vision. Although the document uses VMware's virtualization technologies as an example, it is equally applicable to other implementations such as Microsoft's Virtual Server.

The appendix discusses the RDP desktop hosting problem in depth, and describes how ZXTM can alleviate some of the management and security problems. This is applicable to both physical and virtual desktop hosting.

ZXTM in Virtualized Hosting Environments

Improving the Performance of Apache with ZXTM

The Apache Web Server is the Internet's most popular web server software, as a result of its maturity, free distribution and the enormous range of community-supported modules. This report investigates the performance limitations in the Apache Web Server and describes, with detailed benchmarks, how Zeus' ZXTM Traffic Management software can overcome these deficiencies.

Improving the Performance of Apache with ZXTM

Improving the Performance of BEA WebLogic with ZXTM

BEA WebLogic is a powerful, mature J2EE Application Server, forming the basis of one of the leading internet application development platforms.

Zeus Technology commissioned Broadband-Testing, a respected independent performance specialist, to investigate how ZXTM's Application Acceleration capabilities could improve the performance and reliability of BEA WebLogic server.

Improving the Performance of BEA WebLogic with ZXTM

BEA WebLogic Deployment Guide (ZXTM)

Zeus' ZXTM Traffic Manager was the first application traffic management product to pass BEA's stringent Validation Program, so customers can be assured of seamless interoperability between the two products. This document describes the best practises developed during the certification program.

BEA WebLogic Deployment Guide (ZXTM)

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