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F5 VMware Virtual Community Roundtable

F5 VMware Virtual Community Roundtable. VMware Alliance Team @ F5 VMwarePartnership@f5.com http://www.f5.com/vmware http://devcentral.f5.com/vmware. Common Practical Issues. How can I provision more seamlessly? How can I make application performance better?

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F5 VMware Virtual Community Roundtable

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  1. F5 VMwareVirtual Community Roundtable VMware Alliance Team @ F5 VMwarePartnership@f5.com http://www.f5.com/vmware http://devcentral.f5.com/vmware

  2. Common Practical Issues • How can I provision more seamlessly? • How can I make application performance better? • How can I automate more administrative tasks? • How can I simplify network configuration for VMs? • How can I take full advantage of VMotion? • How can I secure my virtual desktop deployments? • How can I streamline virtual desktop access steps?

  3. F5 & VMware • F5 & VMware are active, global partners • 4+ years of history as managed partners • Primary partnership goals • Compatibility / Interoperability Testing • New Solution Development • New Solution Documentation • Across all major F5 and VMware products • Ongoing cooperative solution development • Coordinated back-end customer support

  4. Recent Highlights • F5 named Global Technology Innovator Partner of the Year • VMware awards highest honor to F5 at 2011 Partner Exchange • Recognition for deep integration and solution development • “VMware-Ready” certifications • LTM Virtual Edition and FirePass VE • Recent Releases • View desktop solution (Edge Gateway and APM for LTM VE) • vCloud Director – joint cloud bursting solution • Management Plug-in for vSphere

  5. Current Mapping F5/VMware Solutions to Features

  6. Server Virtualization & F5

  7. Improving VM Density Offload Typical virtualized server Same server with BIG-IP • SSL • Caching • Compression • One Connect • TCP Optimization

  8. Automating Network Changes: vCenter • BIG-IP LTM & VMware vCenter can be integrated for automatic provisioning of local VMs on demand • Respond to changes in traffic volume • Provision to mean rather than peak • Reduce manual labor

  9. Illustration: LTM & vCenter Integration Demand ↑ ↑ ↑ Web Clients Web Clients Frontends Virtualization Detection BIG-IP LTM iControl Automation VM Provision FrontEnd FrontEnd FrontEnd vCenter + AppSpeed (optional) Monitoring & Management F5 Provision AppServers Virtualization BIG-IP LTM iControl Demand ↓ ↓ ↓ Detection App. Server App. Server App. Server Storage Virtualization Automation F5 Deprovision VM Deprovision

  10. Automating Network Changes: SRM • BIG-IP GTM & VMware SRM integrated to enable failover between sites • GTM makes traffic follow SRM failover • Automatic • Minimize Application Downtime

  11. Illustration: GTM & SRM Integration SRM Failover Ongoing Replication Site 1 Site 2 • GTM Health checks reveal unhealthy site 1. • GTM self-executes a redirection to site 2.

  12. LTM - Virtual Edition ESX v4, ESXi v4 • Available as a trial, developer or production editions • Runs on any server compatible with ESX • Managed just like a physical LTM • Feature & Functionality Parity • APM VE, EM VE, APX VE

  13. F5 Management Plug-In for vSphere

  14. F5 Management Plug-In for vSphere • Free Software Plug-In for VMware vSphere • Attaches to vCenter Server – modifies vSphere Client GUI • Operates with both physical and virtual LTM editions • Streamlines the administrative steps of adding VM nodes from load balancing pools • Automates actions based on pre-defined policies • Reduces risk of error • Reduces manual effort • Officially supported by F5 (in it’s unmodified state)

  15. vSphere Client GUI

  16. Cloud Computing & F5

  17. Escaping Boundaries Between DCsNew Use Cases for Well Established Functionality • Migration • Disaster avoidance • Capacity expansion • Key Technical Problems Solved: • Performance problems caused by latency or bandwidth • Dynamic, transparent rerouting of client traffic from site 1 to site 2 • Loss of app sessions or connections when migrating to another location

  18. Secure & Optimized Tunnel between Cloud & DC“BIG-IP iSessions” Integrated and free with BIG-IP LTM v10 • Symmetric Compression • Adaptive • Deflate • LZO • SSL Encryption Note: Not available on the 1500 and 3400

  19. F5/VMware Cloud Bursting Solution(Hybrid Cloud) Hybrid Cloud APP Loads APP Loads APP Loads Management Management vSphere vSphere Public Clouds Private Clouds

  20. Solution Architecture at a Glance LTM WAN Optimization n+1 Public Cloud Private Data Center

  21. Hybrid Cloud Architecture • Definition: Serving an application across multiple clouds, data centers, or both • Use Cases • Automated Failover • Federated Cloud Authentication • Elastic Applications • Architectural features • Global traffic management • Intelligent application and session persistence • Network API • Global traffic policies • L7 content inspection and routing vCenter-2 vCenter-1

  22. Scaling the Cloud • Global load balancing • Can be policy-based for automated changes (re: SRM) • Minimize unused resources • Geo-location improves user experience • Provision to Mean vs. Peak • Scenarios • Capacity Expansion • BC/DR • Cloud Bursting

  23. Long Distance Live Migration

  24. Escaping Boundaries Between DCsNew Use Cases for Well Established Functionality • Migration • Disaster avoidance • Capacity expansion • Key Technical Problems Solved: • Performance problems caused by latency or bandwidth • Network retransmission of client traffic from site 1 to site 2 • Loss of app sessions when migrating to another location

  25. Logical representation, not physical Internet EtherIP Tunnel EtherIP Tunnel vCenter Server

  26. Acceleration & Encryption • F5 testing results of common bandwidth/latency combinations • iSessions™ or WAN Optimization Module™ • SSL encryption • Acceleration: TCP Optimization, Deduplication, Compression • Able to successfully VMotion in conditions where previously failed

  27. Desktop Virtualization & F5

  28. Common Desktop Virtualization Challenges • User Experience • Performance over the Wide Area Network • Access methods / complexity • Login steps / annoyance • Security • Encryption of all WAN traffic • Unified Access (Local vs. Remote, Desktop vs. Smart Phone) • Integration with existing authentication infrastructure • Endpoint integrity inspection • Scalability/Availability • Scaling VDM servers without more power or rackspace • Ensuring total availability of connection brokers

  29. Your Questions

  30. Next Steps • Sign up for the VMware Topic Group on DevCentral • http://devcentral.f5.com/vmware • Check out F5 solutions for VMware • http://www.f5.com/vmware • Download the vSphere Plug-in from DevCentral • Meet us: • VMUGs – see http://www.f5.com/events • VMworld US – August 29th, Las Vegas • VMworld EMEA - October 18th, Copenhagen • Contact us: VMwarePartnership@f5.com

  31. www.f5.com/vmware

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