F5 VMworld 2011 Technology News

F5 Networks: VMworld 2011
August 2011

Announcement Highlights
F5 adds to its portfolio for VMware solutions
Metro vMotion with VMware vSphere 5 and EMC VPLEX Metro
iApps for VMware View with BIG-IP v11
Single Namespace solution for VMware View

Metro vMotion
Solution history
F5 1st company to do long distance live migration in concert with vMotion
BIG-IP v10 enabled significant performance improvements
Customer challenge
Disaster avoidance or disaster recovery, data center maintenance, capacity planning
Migration of live virtual machines between data centers
Previously (vSphere 4.x or older) only migration between data centers based on 5 ms max, stretched L2 network
Migration of large amount of associated storage challenging

Metro vMotion
Alternative approaches
Migrate only short distances (5 ms) over stretched L2 network
Don’t migrate between data centers
F5 solution
F5 GTM, LTM, and WOM provide accelerated, global connectivity to ensure live migration at higher latencies
EMC VPLEX Metro provides synchronous active/active data replication (eliminating need for Storage vMotion event)
vSphere 5 adding support for inter-data center vMotion events (up to 10 ms)

F5 iApps Overview

BIG-IP v11: F5 iApps Revolution
Optimizing the network for specific applications takes weeks and can be frustrating
F5’s unique application deployment guides helped–now just days
F5’s new iApps capability reduces process to hours and minutes and it’s portable like virtual machines

BIG-IP v11: F5 iApps Revolution
Framework to unify, simplify, and control Application Delivery Services
Application-centric
Contextual view and advanced analytics
Rapid and predictable deployment

F5 iApps: How it works
iApps templates allow for business policy-driven configuration and IT collaboration
iApps drives automation and provisioning
Changes can quickly be made and re-applied
iApps are portable between F5 devices enabling rapid migration
Every service is reusable

iApps for VMware View
Customer challenge
Implementation and configuration of network centric settings
Manual configuration time consuming and prone to mistakes
Changes difficult to manage across multi data center
Homegrown scripts
Manual configuration

iApps for VMware View
F5 solution
BIG-IPv11 provides iApps framework for rapid deployment of application centric environments
iApps for VMware View implements F5 Deployment Guide
Configuration takes minutes instead of hours
Errors are minimized/eliminated
Changes easily be replicated across multiple data centers

Single Namespace for VMware View
Customer challenge
Connecting end users to preferred data center location
Based on geographical location (lowest latency)
Based on business unit or customer
Manual configuration and maintenance of multiple namespaces

Single Namespace for VMware View
F5 solution
F5 GTM, LTM, and APM work in concert to provide a Single Namespace solution for VMware View
For example, https://mydesktop.example.com
Users automatically connected to the preferred data center
Authentication and Authorization policies automatically applied
No manual configuration of multiple namespaces

Summary
F5 continues technology leadership with VMware solutions
Server, application, and desktop virtualization
Cloud computing (private, hybrid, and public)
F5 offers best-of-breed innovation
Security, access, automation, and traffic management

Resources
VMware @ F5
http://www.f5.com/vmware
http://www.f5.com/view
http://devcentral.f5.com/vmware
VMwarePartnership@f5.com

F5 VMworld 2011 Technology News

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