With Zend Server Cluster Manager, managing large-scale PHP deployments is easy as IT managers can easily monitor multiple Zend Server instances to ensure high availability and scalability of PHP applications. The advantage with the Zend Server Cluster manager is that it supports applications running on your premises as well as in the cloud thereby giving customers a dual benefit.
The Session Clustering facility offered by Zend Server Cluster Manager provides a fast, scalable, integrated failover solution for your PHP applications. Through this unique functionality, user sessions are always maintained on multiple servers. Even if a server becomes unavailable, the session data is automatically retrieved from a different server within the cluster. This helps in offering users a seamless browsing experience even when the server is down due to some technical issues or due to scheduled maintenance.
With PHP Configuration management and a scalable clustering architecture, users have the application infrastructure at their disposal which will help them to scale up or down depending upon the volume of business. The Zend Server Cluster Manager enables users to manage multiple Zend Server instances from a centralized web based console and ensures consistent PHP and Zend Server configuration across the cluster.
With the Zend Server Cluster Manager users can detect, isolate PHP issues and configuration mismatches through cluster-wide application monitoring. The Zend Server Cluster Manager helps users to centrally manage a cluster of PHP servers and scale up or scale down your application depending upon the business requirements.
Zend server Cluster Manager Advantages
The Zend Production Solution allows you to meet the challenges of growth by providing a complete, enterprise-grade PHP application stack and management solution for PHP applications that run on premise or in the cloud.
• Availability: An up-to-date, fully tested and supported PHP stack with failover support, ensures highly application availability with minimal risk
• Performance and scalability: Users can easily scale applications to cater to the ever-changing demands of the marketplace and ensure optimal application performance through multiple built-in optimization and acceleration technologies
• Higher Staff productivity: Quickly detect and isolate application problems and cut the time spent on maintaining and updating the PHP stack.
Round the Clock Availability for Your PHP Application
Developing reliable, business-critical web applications is vital to the success of an enterprise. The Zend Production Solution enables users to create robust and highly reliable applications in PHP. Centralized cluster management helps eliminate potential problems stemming from server mis-configuration. Session clustering facility of the Zend Server Cluster Manager provides session redundancy and failover. Furthermore, as a Zend Production Solution customer, you will have access to Zend’s technical support so that you run the most reliable, secure, and latest version of PHP.
Enhanced Application Performance
The Zend Production Solution provides multiple options for improving application response times and minimizing resource utilization. Apart from Code Acceleration, Full Page Caching and data caching, there is another powerful feature it offers known as Job Queue.
Job Queue – This functionality streamlines an application’s end-user experience by offloading non-interactive tasks to a cluster-wide scheduler.
The Zend Production Solution makes it easy to scale up applications by adding additional cluster nodes to meet sudden, unexpected escalation in traffic.
Manage Large-Scale Deployments effortlessly!
While scaling up your PHP application to multiple servers helps respond to the burgeoning demand; experience has shown that adding servers inevitably adds more complexity to your network. Monitoring a multi-server environment and isolating issues for fast problem resolution are extremely challenging. Deploying or updating an application on multiple servers involves many configuration changes that need to be duplicated across all servers. The Zend Production Solution gives you the power to manage these complexities. When a new server is added to a cluster (either in a cloud or in your datacenter), it is automatically configured appropriately. Users get an alert when they make a change on one clustered server but not on others. And when an approved change needs to be propagated across the cluster, Zend Server Cluster Manager handles all the work.
Detect, Diagnose, Solve!
The Zend Production Solution enables users to take a proactive approach when it comes to ensuring the best user experience. It monitors PHP application execution whether on a single server or multiple servers, on premise or in the Cloud, and alerts users of impending problems, such as slow performance, errors, configuration mis-matches, enabling developers and administrators to quickly
and efficiently pinpoint the root cause of problems.
