F5 VMwareVirtual Community Roundtable

VMware Alliance Team @ F5VMwarePartnership@f5.comhttp://www.f5.com/vmwarehttp://devcentral.f5.com/vmware

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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?

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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

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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

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Current Mapping F5/VMware Solutions to Features

Top 6 Most Common Customer Virtualization Project Types

Top 10 F5Solutions for VMware

Application Virtualization

(vSphere)

Server Consolidation

(vSphere)

Data Center Consolidation

(vSphere)BC/DR (SRM)

Desktop Virtualization

(View)Cloud (vCD)

Server Offload Management Integration Automated Provisioning SRM Integration Global Availability Long Distance vMotion WAN Optimization Multi-Tenant ADC Single Sign-On Secure Access

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Server Virtualization & F5

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Improving VM Density

Typical virtualized server

SSL Caching Compression One Connect TCP Optimization

Offload

Same serverwith BIG-IP

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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

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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

vCenter

+

AppSpeed

(optional)

Demand ↑ ↑ ↑

F5 Provision

Detection

Automation

VM Provision

Demand ↓ ↓ ↓

VM Deprovision

Detection

AutomationF5 Deprovision

Illustration: LTM & vCenter Integration

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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

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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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LTM - Virtual Edition• 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

ESX v4, ESXi v4

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F5 Management Plug-In for vSphere

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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)

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vSphere Client GUI

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Cloud Computing & F5

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Escaping Boundaries Between DCs

New 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

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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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F5/VMware Cloud Bursting Solution(Hybrid Cloud)

Private Clouds Public Clouds

Management Management

vSphere vSphere

Hybrid Cloud

APPLoads

APPLoads

APPLoads

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Solution Architecture at a Glance

Public CloudPrivate Data Center

n+1

LTM WAN Optimization

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Hybrid Cloud Architecture

vCenter-1 vCenter-2

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

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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

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Long Distance Live Migration

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Escaping Boundaries Between DCs

New 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

25Logical representation, not physical

vCenter Server

InternetEtherIP Tunnel EtherIP Tunnel

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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

Bandwidth (Mbps)

Link Latency (RTT ms)

Link Packet Loss (%)

Average Time without WOM

in Minutes

Average Time

with WOM in Minutes

Acceleration Factor

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

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

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

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

1000 (Ethernet)

20 0% 2:38 0:38 3.5X

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Desktop Virtualization & F5

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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

Your Questions

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