Deployment Guides

A10 Networks and Infoblox offer a comprehensive and jointly tested solution-a high performance NAT64 gateway and full DNS64 service-that has already been deployed by enterprises and service providers. The solution is enhanced by each company's product features that allow enhanced security, optimized DNS support and scalability...
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The Blackboard Learn⁺ System is a powerful learning and knowledge transfer environment that benefits students, faculty and campus Information Technology (IT) administrators. This deployment guide shows how to optimize a Blackboard Learn+ deployment by adding an A10 Networks Application Delivery Controller (ADC) AX Series device.
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This deployment guide contains configuration procedures for AX Series application delivery controllers and server load balancers, to support a Juniper Networks SA Series SSL VPN Appliances solution...
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This deployment guide contains configuration procedures for AX Series server load balancers to support Microsoft Exchange Server.

Microsoft Exchange provides reliable messaging with built-in protection against spam and viruses. Using Exchange, users throughout an organization can access e-mail, voice mail, calendars, and contacts from a wide variety of devices and from any location.

The AX Series with its Advanced Core Operating System (ACOS) has been designed specifi cally for applications such as Exchange, providing better robustness in failover situations and performing intelligent load sharing of email processing...
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The AX Series of Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) provide advanced load balancing services for Microsoft Lync 2010. AX hardware-based models as well as the software-based model (SoftAX) are certified by Microsoft for Lync deployment:

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Microsoft Lync 2010 Server was released on November 2010 as the successor to Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2, commonly known as OCS. Microsoft Lync is the next-generation unified communications platform that delivers accessibility among different Microsoft Office Applications such as Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft SharePoint. A10 Networks' partnership with Microsoft provides a scalable, efficient and secure solution geared for the enterprise marketplace...
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This deployment guide contains configuration procedures for AX Series server load balancers to support Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS).

OCS is the first Microsoft product to combine enterprise-ready IM (instant messaging), presence, conferencing, and VoIP (Voice over IP) telephony in a fully integrated unified communications solution. Office Communications Server 2007 provides richer presence capabilities, rich multimedia experiences that include data collaboration, group IM, audio and video, and multiparty audio conferencing, and improved deployment and management than its predecessor, Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2005.

The AX Series with its Advanced Core Operating System (ACOS) has been designed specifically for applications such as OCS, providing better robustness in failover situations, load balancing VoIP users' sessions for better performance and scalability, offloading processing for security, and performing intelligent load sharing for Web based clients' access for OCS services...
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This deployment guide contains detailed procedures to configure AX Series server load balancers to support Microsoft 2003 and 2007 SharePoint Servers.

Microsoft SharePoint is a web-based enterprise application for document management and collaboration, utilizing the HTTP and HTTPS protocols. Organizations have purchased more than 100 million licenses, and more than 17,000 organizations use SharePoint implementations to facilitate and collaborate with information that is critical to businesses. SharePoint is a TCP-based application requiring multiple acknowledgements and secure processing of data, which could slow down server response and degrade responsiveness to users when load increases.

The AX Series with its Advanced Core Operating System (ACOS) has been designed specifi cally for applications such as SharePoint, providing better robustness in failover situations, offl oading security processing, and performing intelligent load balancing...
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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is the latest web application platform developed by Microsoft for small to large businesses. Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is designed as a centralized collaboration, content, and file management application software. SharePoint provides many features for clients, such as support for audio, video, and Silverlight applications, making it easy for users to build dynamic web sites. SharePoint 2010 also offers the new ribbon user interface that makes SharePoint easier to deploy, manage and customize. In addition, SharePoint now offers easy-to-deploy templates that range from wikis to workflows. SharePoint is a very scalable solution that can support thousands of customers and it can be deployed in a multi-server environment. The AX Series Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) provide advanced load balancing services for Microsoft SharePoint 2010...
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This deployment guide contains configuration procedures for AX Series server load balancers to support Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services.

Microsoft Terminal Services allows controlling of applications running in one location from another location. By using Terminal Services, a user from a remote location can have control of either the whole desktop or certain applications.

The AX Series with its Advanced Core Operating System (ACOS) has been designed specifically for applications such as Terminal Services, providing better robustness in failover situations, offloading security processing, and performing intelligent load sharing...
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This deployment guide contains configuration procedures for AX Series server load balancers to support Oracle Application Server.

Oracle Application Server is an integrated, standards-based software platform consisting of Oracle HTTP Server and OC4J (OracleAS Containers for J2EE), which deploys J2EE-based applications. Oracle Application Server Enterprise Edition is an application platform suite (APS) that offers a comprehensive solution for developing, integrating, and deploying all of your enterprise's applications, portals, and Web sites. Enterprise Edition combines robust business integration, leading J2EE performance, capabilities for enterprise portal, real-time business activity monitoring, business intelligence, identity management, and wireless deployment.

The AX Series with its Advanced Core Operating System (ACOS) has been designed specifi cally for applications such as Oracle Application Server providing better robustness in failover situations, intelligent load sharing and offl oading security processing.

This guide used the AX Series 2.0.1 in routed mode and Oracle Application Server 11g...
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A10 Networks and Oracle WebLogic provide a joint solution to deploy web and e-commerce applications. WebLogic Server is Java-based application server software that runs on a middle tier, between backend databases and related applications, and browser-based thin clients.

WebLogic is based on the Java 2 platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE), the standard platform used to create Java-based multi-tier enterprise applications. WebLogic is the leading e-commerce online transaction processing (OLTP) platform. As the industry-leading OLTP, WebLogic Server allows you to quickly develop and deploy reliable, secure, scalable and manageable applications...
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This deployment guide contains AX Series configuration steps to enable a dynamic application delivery infrastructure combined with load balancing support for VMware deployments. AX Series and VMware have flexible and powerful APIs that can be integrated and applied to create dynamic deployments. The intent of this guide is to provide a base architecture deployment example that can be used as a reference.

The deployment configuration guide is based on the VMware vCenter threshold exception where a new VM (virtual machine) is instantiated when additional resources are required. By using this guide example, the initiation of VM will dynamically trigger the provisioning of related servers on the AX platform to support the new VM...
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