A high performance Load Balancer
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 is available as software, as a hardware appliance and as a Virtual Appliance.

Features
- Improves Performance
With integrated SSL, WAN offload, and content compression, ZXTM LB dramatically accelerates many networked applications.
- Creates Resilience
ZXTM LB can be deployed in active / active high-availability pairs for load balancer resilience, and creates fault-tolerance for your back-end servers.
- Adds Intelligence
Content inspection rules allow you to send requests for certain web pages to specific groups of servers.
- Improves Reliability
By continually monitoring the health of your back-end servers, failed servers are automatically detected and removed from the cluster until they recover.
- Ease of Use
ZXTM LB takes minutes to install and configure, and includes a secure, web-based graphical user interface which provides you with visual alerting, health monitoring and cluster diagnostics.
- Advanced Load Balancing Algorithms
When deciding which is the most suitable server to send a request to, ZXTM LB makes use of several advanced algorithms, bringing extreme efficiency to content delivery.
- One-Click Session Persistence
If sticky sessions are required for your web application, just turn on session affinity with one click.
- Connection Draining
Allows you to remove back-end servers from your cluster safely without disrupting any users' sessions.
Feature Comparison
The Feature Comparison matrix describes the differences between Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager (ZXTM) and ZXTM Load Balancer.