Deployment Guides

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.

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.

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.

Microsoft Windows Media Services is a platform for streaming live or on-demand audio and video content over the Internet or an intranet. This article explains how to configure ZXTM to load-balance traffic to and from a cluster of Windows servers providing Media Services.

Microsoft Terminal Services are widely used by many organisations to enable users to access their desktop from any location, inside or outside the organisation. You can use ZXTM to scale a Terminal Services deployment and perform health monitoring to alert and avoid failed nodes.

This document describes how to configure ZXTM to manage the traffic to a cluster of BEA WebLogic Servers.

It's also available as a White Paper (pdf)

This pdf document describes how to configure ZXTM to manage a cluster of Oracle Application servers. It discusses 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.

Many customers who run ZXTM in front of a J2EE application server, like JBoss or Tomcat, would like to use the high performance SSL processing of ZXTM but still need their application to know when the connection was secured. The Apache AJP protocol can be used to achieve this.

The JBoss Application Server is a widely used and very popular J2EE certified platform for deploying enterprise Java applications. The Application server supports all J2EE 1.4 features and includes support for clustering, caching and persistence.

This article will give you an overview of how ZXTM from Zeus Technology can be used to load balance a JBoss application server cluster.

ZXTM sits in front of Apache nicely. This article gives you some tips to make life even easier.

When ZXTM load-balances a connection to an Apache server or Apache-based application, the connection appears to originate from the ZXTM machine. This can be a problem if the server wishes to perform access control based on the client's IP address, or if it wants to log the true source address of the request.

You can either use ZXTM's IP Transparency feature on supported platforms, or a custom Apache module.

When ZXTM load-balances a connection to an iPlanet/SunONE/Sun Java System Web Server or application, the connection appears to originate from the ZXTM machine. This can be a problem if the server wishes to perform access control based on the client's IP address, or if it wants to log the true source address of the request.

You can either use ZXTM's IP Transparency feature on supported platforms, or a custom iPlanet/Sun NSAPI module.

SSL Decryption can be offloaded from ZXTM to an nFast Ultra PCI cards from nCipher, to increase SSL performance even further. This article explains how to configure ZXTM and the nCipher cards in a cluster of ZXTM servers such that failover works correctly.

T3 is a proprietary protocol developed by BEA Systems. It's primary use is within BEA Weblogic's series of application servers.

Outlook Web Access can be quickly, easily and securely integrated into ZXTM. We recommend that you allow ZXTM to handle the SSL decryption; reducing the cpu stress to your Exchange back-end(s). A HTTP protocol server, listening on port 443, should be setup to handle traffic to your Exchange server. ZXTM will now take care of the rest!

This FAQ explains how to take the Windows Server SSL certificates and import them into ZXTM.