ZXTM VA - ZXTM Virtual Appliance
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Traffic Management for Virtualized Environments
To host a reliable, fault-tolerant service, it's essential to run redundant servers for failover. However, many organizations who do this find that the duplication of servers results in a proliferation of underutilized machines, with associated costs and management overhead. Server utilization of less than 5% can be common. Clearly, this is an inefficient use of resources, including hardware costs, power and cooling costs, rackspace, etc.
Organizations are turning to virtualization technology to solve this problem, and VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 technology is the most mature and widely deployed solution. VMware customers report:
- Increased hardware utilization by 50-70%
- Decreased hardware and software capital costs by 40%
- Decreased operating costs by 50-70%
- Increased server to server administrator from 10:1 to 30:1
A virtual appliance is a fully pre-installed and pre-configured application and OS environment that runs in a virtual machine. Virtual Appliances can be easily deployed on VMware ESX server and Windows Server 2005 R2.
In order to realize the full benefits for organizations that are standardizing on VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3, ZXTM Virtual Appliance (ZXTM VA) is the ideal solution to their load balancing and traffic management needs. By using ZXTM VA, organizations can:
- Avoid the expense of additional datacenter space for physical appliances
- Use existing compute resources rather than purchase proprietary physical appliances
- Contain the power and cooling costs
ZXTM VA is the only traffic management solution available as a Virtual Appliance.
Benefits of ZXTM VA at a glance:
- 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.
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.
