F5 VMware Virtual Community Roundtable VMware Alliance F5

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 Top 6 Most Common Customer Virtualization Project Types Top 10 F5 Solutions 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 

6 Server Virtualization & F5

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

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

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 (a)GTM Health checks reveal unhealthy site 1. (b)GTM self-executes a redirection to site 2. Site 1Site 2

12 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

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 DCs New Use Cases for Well Established Functionality Migration Disaster avoidance Capacity expansion 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 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”

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

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

21 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

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 DCs New Use Cases for Well Established Functionality Migration Disaster avoidance Capacity expansion 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 vCenter Server Internet EtherIP Tunnel

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 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)1000%13:433:353.8X %6:101:184.7X 155 (OC3)1000%13:253:293.9X 622 (OC12)400%5:571:573.1X 1000 (Ethernet) 200%2:380:383.5X

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

Your Questions

30 Next Steps Sign up for the VMware Topic Group on DevCentral – Check out F5 solutions for VMware – Download the vSphere Plug-in from DevCentral Meet us: –VMUGs – see –VMworld US – August 29 th, Las Vegas –VMworld EMEA - October 18 th, Copenhagen Contact us: