ZXTM VA manages your application traffic, inspecting, transforming and routing requests as it load-balances them across the application infrastructure.
ZXTM VA has passed VMware's stringent Virtual Appliance Certification program and can also be deployed on Windows Server systems equipped with Virtual Server 2005 R2. It contains the award-winning ZXTM or ZXTM LB software, a proven operating system foundation and additional management tools to make installation and configuration quick and easy.
Traffic Management for Virtualized Environments
Available for VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 and Windows Virtual Server 2005 R2.
Benefits of ZXTM VA
- Fast and easy deployment
- VMware Certified, Supported on Win2K.
- Lower consumption of datacenter resources.
- Scalability with growing business needs.
- Award-winning functionality of ZXTM or ZXTM LB.
VMware VI and Dynamic Provisioning with ZXTM
How can you respond immediately to sudden increases in load, even at night, and still sleep soundly in your bed? Automated Dynamic Provisioning of course!
The popularity of Virtual Infrastructures seems to be increasing on a daily basis, and besides the obvious savings in power, cooling, and hardware, a major benefit of the Virtual data center is increased manageability, and dynamic provisioning. Regardless of whether you think of ZXTM as an Application Delivery Controller, or an Application Traffic Manager, its position in the network means that it is perfectly placed to help you take control of your virtual environment.
ZXTM has always had the ability to accelerate web applications, and optimize throughput and resource utilization. Sophisticated monitoring, rate shaping, content caching, and the various process and network offloading features of ZXTM have all helped manage, and better utilize the available resources. Now with ZXTM 5.0 and Java Extensions, we can go a step further and actually provision new resources on the fly, directly from ZXTM.
A Detailed Example of Dynamic Provisioning
The ability to control VMware Virtual Infrastructures can be used in combination with a ZXTM Service Level Monitoring class (SLM). This gives us the ability to dynamically deploy a new node, when the SLM class detects that the service is under load. A simple TrafficScript™ rule can check the conformance of a service, and in the event that the percentage of conforming requests drops below a predetermined thresh hold, it can initiate provisioning. The TrafficScript rule will call a Java Extension and direct it to power on a new node, once the power change has completed, the extension could then connect back to ZXTM and add that new node into the service pool.
ZXTM VA is the only traffic management solution available as a virtual appliance. ZXTM VA is available with either ZXTM traffic management software, or ZXTM LB load balancing software.
Alternative Platforms
| VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 |
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ESX 3.0 (3.0.0+) |
| Microsoft Virtual Server |
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Windows Server 2003R2, Virtual Server 2005R2 |
ZXTM Software can be installed on any supported Linux, Solaris or FreeBSD server.
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ZXTM Hardware Appliances give you the security of an integrated hardware appliance from a single vendor, combining the ZXTM or ZXTM LB software with a secure, managed OS and high-performance, proven hardware.