Re: Zeus ZXTM?

It is always good to hear real user feedback and experiences.

The Zeus ZXTM software provides an impressive range of traffic management features and functionality, is intuitive with an easy to use interface and will run on any server hardware platform.

In brief I would highlight

·         Zeus is software and can be deployed on the platform of a customer’s choice. The ROI is demonstrably better http://www.zeus.com/news/press_articles/zeus-price-performance-press-release.html

·         Zeus scales easier, up to 64 in a cluster, with performance doubling as you add another ZXTM into a cluster, all one needs is a license key!

·         Zeus tends to be much easier to deploy – the market tells us that the ZXTM GUI interface is easy to navigate, and the setting up of traffic managers is easy http://www.zeus.com/documents/en/WE/WEB_ITV_CS.pdf

·         Zeus support is very strong, based out of the UK 24/7

Why not download the ZXTM desktop Editon? You can download The ZXTM Desktop Edition is a simple virtual appliance containing the ZXTM software and a simple cluster of webservers. This edition includes sample scenarios - http://www.zeus.com/downloads/desktop/

Thanks,
Alison

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Zak Thompson
Sent: 08 July 2009 15:11
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Subject: Re: [load balancing] Zeus ZXTM?

We replaced our F5 6800's for two intel dual quads with 32g ram and 10g ethernet running ZXTM.  F5 was lacking in performance on large file downloads and was having a very very hard time pushing 1+Gbps even with F5's engineers trying to figure out how to make it better.

We have been very pleased with Zeus's performance and have been very happy to make the change over to ZXTM and would HIGHLY recommend it.  Your making a software investment which you can move to bigger/better servers and not one into a paperweight since the F5 is a hardware appliance you are limited to the functionality it handles.

Cheers,
Zak Thompson
Yellow Fiber Networks

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 8:55 AM
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Subject: Re: [load balancing] Zeus ZXTM?

I tested Zeus ZXTM and it worked well for me, and it can do pretty much everything an F5 LTM will do and had something that had basic iRules functionality.

But a new F5 BIG-IP 1600 is under $20k, so ZXTM won't really save you much money (based on the last time I got prices out of them).

Regards,
Vince


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Hi – has anyone any experience, good or bad of using Zeus ZXTMor  ZXTM LB? We almost exclusively use F5 LTM’s at present and have been asked to look at Zeus as an alternative for some setups.

Thanks – Julian.

Julian Grunnell
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Webfusion

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