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Overview

Zend Platform 3 Live Demo enables you to actually experience Zend Platform capabilities, by accessing a live, running Zend Platform cluster deployed on Zend's servers. This demo shows how Zend Platform optimizes the business outcome of a typical real-life Web application. Refer to the Business Case section below for additional information on the application. Try the Zend Platform live demo!

Using the Live Demo you'll be able to:

• Understand how Zend Platform monitors Web applications
• View reliability & performance reports
• Try the performance tools
• Check out the centralized central management capabilities
• View session clustering statistics
• Understand Job Queues
• Try out the BIRT integration
• And much more...

Business Case

The cluster used in this Live Demo illustrates a deployment of a typical Web application from the financial industry. The simulated financial application is run by 'Bank MA' (a fictional financial organization) with the customer facing web server at http://bank-ma.com. The application is deployed on a distributed cluster infrastructure consisting of 5 physical machines containing both front-end and back-end servers. The cluster structure is:

• bank-ma-finance-group - a servers (logical) group containing the following servers:
  
  • finance-backend4.bank-ma.com - Back-end server
  • ldap-master.bank-ma.com - Back-end server running LDAP services which uses SSL
  • platform-admin.bank-ma.com - Zend Platform Central server containing its Administrative UI

• bank-ma-finance-cluster - a Web Cluster containing the following servers:
  
  • finance-srvr1.bank-ma.com - Front-end server, containing the financial application UI and business logic
  • finance-srvr2.bank-ma.com - Front-end server, containing the financial application UI and business logic

Additionally, the Web Cluster contains 2 VHosts - financial-app1 and financial-app2.