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
iControl
Mon
itorin
g &
Man
agem
ent
vCenter
+
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!
