High performance load balancer
Deliver online services cost effectively
Zeus ensure the successful delivery of online services cost effectively from any deployment environment – physical, virtual or cloud.
Zeus Load Balancer is a powerful load balancer that grows with your traffic management needs. It is a cost-effective starting point for adding load balancing and resilience to your services, with a smooth upgrade path to Zeus Traffic Manager to scale as your services grow.
Create resilient services
Monitor the health and performance of these services. Advanced health monitors find application problems and route traffic away from failing servers. Comprehensive visualization and detailed diagnostics help you understand site behavior and resolve any problems rapidly.
Improve performance
Use SSL offload, WAN offload and content compression, as well as sophisticated HTTP optimization to deliver dramatically faster responses and improved capacity. Optional HTTP Content Caching reduces server load and further improves the service that end-users receive.
Maximize the availability of your online application
Utilize a range of server load balancing methods to determine how you want application traffic to be distributed. Update services without interrupting user connections or sessions by applying session persistence modes and node draining.
Seamless upgrade path
As your service grows and you require additional functionality and control upgrade to Zeus Traffic Manager and Zeus Elastic Application Delivery platform.
Deployment options
Software
Run Zeus software on the Physical or Virtual server platform of your choice:
• Recommended: 2 GB RAM; 50 GB disk space; Intel Xeon/AMD Opteron/Sun SPARC; Dual 1Gbit or 10Gbit NICs
• 32-bit and 64-bit UNIX/Linux platforms: Linux, Solaris.
Supported platforms - Software:
| Linux x86 |
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Linux 2.6 (2.6.8+, 2.6.22+ for IPv6) |
| Linux x86-64 |
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Linux 2.6 (2.6.8+, 2.6.22+ for IPv6) |
| Solaris SPARC |
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Solaris 10 |
| Solaris x86 |
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Solaris 10 |
| Solaris x86-64 |
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Solaris 10 |
| OpenSolaris x86-64 |
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OpenSolaris 2009.6 |
Zeus Load Balancer Software runs on physical servers and within Linux or Solaris guests on a wide range of virtualization platforms.
Optional features:
- IP Transparency and multi-hosted IP addresses are not available on Solaris software.
Virtualization
Run Zeus Load Balancer Virtual Appliance on VMware Virtual Infrastructure, VMware vSphere, XenServer and OracleVM. Run Zeus software on the virtualization platform of your choice.
Supported platforms - Virtual:
Zeus’ Virtual Appliance is fully supported on the following virtualization platforms:
| VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 |
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ESX 3.x |
| VMware vSphere 4 |
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ESX 4.x |
| XenServer |
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XenServer 5.5 |
| OracleVM |
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OracleVM 2.1 |
Zeus software may be installed on any virtual environment that presents a complete virtual hardware instance to the guest OS, or a complete and standard virtual OS instance to an application, including VMware, Xen, Oracle VM, KVM, Solaris Zones and Solaris LDOMs. Hyper-V is currently not recommended for production use due to the experimental nature of its support for Linux guests.
Cloud
Run Zeus Load Balancer software on any supported Cloud infrastructure, including Rackspace Cloud, Joyent and Amazon EC2.