Presented by Charlie Cano Solution Architect, VMware Alliance

Maximizing the Agility of your Virtualized Infrastructure: How F5 and VMware can help you get the most out of your mission-critical applications

Presented by

Charlie CanoSolution Architect, VMware Alliance

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How Does F5 Help Virtualization?

1. Lower Costs

– Higher VM Density = Less servers, rack space, power

2. Improved Agility & Efficiency

– Automation = Fewer manual tasks for IT staff

– Advanced Networking Integration = Better use of Resources, Improved Business Continuity

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F5 & VMware

• F5 & VMware are active partners

• Interoperability & Performance Testing– vSphere, vCenter, AppSpeed, SRM, View, etc.

• Joint Deployment Guides

• Future joint development plans in progress

• Dedicated alliance teams

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Server Virtualization & F5

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F5 Has Been Improving Enterprise App Performance & Availability for 10 years

• Network Functions are as critical to virtual as physical apps– Load balancing– Traffic Management– Traffic Optimization– Acceleration– Security

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Improving VM Density

Typical virtualized server SSL Caching Compression One Connect TCP Optimization

Offl

oad

Same serverwith BIG-IP

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Example: Reduced CPU Utilization on SAP Portal on ESX 3.5

Joint testing conducted at SAP Co-Innovation Lab

68%

38%

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Automating the Network ChangesBIG-IP LTM & VMware vCenter integrated for automatic provisioning of local VMs on demand Respond to changes in traffic volume Provision to mean rather than peak Reduce manual labor

BIG-IP GTM & VMware SRM integrated to enable failover between sites

GTM makes traffic follow SRM failover

Automatic

Minimize Application Downtime

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Web Clients

FrontEnd

AppServers Virtualization

App. Server App. Server App. Server

Storage Virtualization

Frontends VirtualizationBIG-IP LTM

BIG-IP LTM

FrontEnd FrontEnd

Web Clients

iControl

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vCenter

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AppSpeed

(optional)

Demand ↑ ↑ ↑

F5 Provision

Detection

AutomationVM Provision

Demand ↓ ↓ ↓

VM Deprovision

Detection

AutomationF5 Deprovision

Illustration: LTM & vCenter Integration

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Illustration: GTM & SRM Integration

SRM Failover

Ongoing Replication

(a) GTM Health checks reveal unhealthy site 1.

(b) GTM self-executes a redirection to site 2.

Site 1 Site 2

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WAN Acceleration for VMwarevMotion, Storage vMotion & View

• Overcome latency, packet loss and low bandwidth• BIG-IP iSessions™

– Free feature of LTM, no additional boxes required– Compression, Optimization

• WAN Optimization Module – Add-on Module for LTM– Accelerates VMware View remote desktop traffic on average 12:1– Can accelerate vMotion up to 25:1– Improved user experience over any link– Acceptable connections over weak links– Compression, Optimization, De-duplication

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Cloud Computing & F5

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Long Distance VMotion – Why?

• Use Cases– Migration– Disaster avoidance– Capacity expansion

• Problems Solved:– Network redirection of client traffic from site 1 to site 2– Loss of app sessions when migrating to another location– Performance problems caused by latency or bandwidth

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Escaping Boundaries Between DCs

New Use Cases for Well Established Functionality

– Disaster Avoidance

– Capacity Expansion

– Migrate Apps between DCs

– Migrate Apps between Clouds

– Follow the sun/mooniSession tunnel

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Bandwidth (Mbps)

Link Latency (RTT ms)

Link Packet

Loss (%)

Average Time

without WOM in Minutes

Average Time with

WOM in Minutes

Resulting Acceleration

Factor

VMotion Success

Rate (without WOM)

VMotion Success

Rate (with WOM)

45 (T3) 100 0% 13:43 3:35 3.8X <50% 100%

100 25 0% 6:10 1:18 4.7X 100% 100%

155 (OC3) 100 0% 13:25 3:29 3.9X <50% 100%

622 (OC12) 40 0% 5:57 1:57 3.1X 100% 100%

1000 (Ethernet)

20 0% 2:38 0:38 3.5X 100% 100%

Acceleration & Encryption• F5 testing results of common bandwidth/latency combinations• iSessions™ or WAN Optimization Module™• SSL encryption• Acceleration

– TCP Optimization -Byte-level deduplication– Dynamic compression

Able to successfully VMotion in conditions where previously failed

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On-Demand Scalability in the Cloud

LAN

Internal Cloud External Cloud

On-DemandScaleability

Scale-up by simply plugging in a new blade.

Zero configuration

On-Premise Servers

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Dynamic & Intelligent Traffic Management between Cloud & DC

Enterprise Manager

Firewalls

BIG-IPGlobal Traffic Manager

DatabaseServers

BladeServers

HQ Site 1

BIG-IPLocal Traffic Manager

BIG-IPLink Controller

DMZ

Enterprise Manager

Firewalls

BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager

DatabaseServers

BladeServers

BIG-IPLocalTraffic

Manager

FirePass

BIG-IPLink Controller

DMZ

Remote Users

BIG-IP SAM

Dynamically load balance between data centers based on application availability, time of day, etc. Take into account all tiers of the application

Internet or WAN

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Symmetric Compression• Adaptive• Deflate• LZO

SSL Encryption

Integrated and free with BIG-IP LTM v10

Note: Not available on the 1500 and 3400

Secure & Optimized Tunnel between Cloud & DC“BIG-IP iSessions”

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Multi-Tenancy“Route Domains”

BIG-IP v10: Managing Networks in the Cloud

• Host multiple departments/organizations on one BIG-IP without conflicts

• Granular control to provide separate routing domains and overlapping IPs

Department A Department B

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Desktop Virtualization & F5

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LTM Offload from View Manager Servers

View Manager load grows over time

But LTM can improve View Manager Server Efficiency, Resulting in fewer servers needed and better performance

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LTM Acceleration of RDP* Traffic

LTM can also accelerate RDP traffic up to 12:1 using its WAN Optimization Module

Encrypted, Accelerated, Deduplicated Tunnel

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VDI/View Deployment Wizard

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Answer some simple questions

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Automatically creates all necessary objects

Click on any to customize

If no customization needed, you’re done!