Delivering Turnkey Load Balancing in VMware Cloud with Day 0 Automation
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Bring modern, advanced load balancing to VMware Cloud (VMC) on AWS in a matter of minutes. EasyAvi is a new VMware Fling and enables day 0 automation and quick consumption of public cloud.
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Delivering Turnkey Load Balancing in VMware Cloud with Day 0 Automation
- 1. Confidential │ ©2021 VMware, Inc. Delivering Turnkey Load Balancing in VMware Cloud with Day 0 Automation Nicolas Bayle Technical Evangelist, VMware
- 2. Confidential │ ©2021 VMware, Inc. Agenda 2 • VMware Cloud on AWS Overview • Load Balancing Challenges in the Public Cloud • Why is Avi the Best Fit for VMC on AWS? • EasyAvi Fling Tool • Demo
- 3. Confidential │ ©2021 VMware, Inc. 3 VMware Cloud on AWS Overview • VMware SDDC running on AWS bare metal • Delivered, operated, supported by VMware • On-demand capacity and flexible consumption • Full operational consistency with on-premises SDDC • Seamless large-scale workload portability and hybrid operations • Global AWS footprint, reach, availability • Direct access to native AWS services AWS Global Infrastructure Customer data Center vSphere vSAN NSX vSphere-based environment AWS services vRealize Suite, 3rd party ISV ecosystem vCenter vCenter VMware CloudTM on AWS Powered by VMware Cloud Foundation Large-scale application migration S3 Lambda Redshift ELB CodeBuild KMS …
- 4. Confidential │ ©2021 VMware, Inc. 4 Can I have the Best of Both Worlds? The legacy VEs and cloud provider solutions are an unacceptable compromise Load Balancing Challenges/Tradeoffs in the Public Cloud Legacy Virtual LB offers features Cloud Provider LB offers automation & elasticity ? Tradeoff operational simplicity, automation, and cloud-native capabilities Tradeoff features, multi-cloud consistency, and portability
- 5. Confidential │ ©2021 VMware, Inc. 5 • Legacy VEs in VMC are static – deployed as active standby pairs • No elasticity • Multi-vendor support • Tromboning between VMC and ELB • Limited enterprise-grade features • No application security/WAF • Multi-vendor support Legacy ADC is a no starter Challenges with Native LBs Why Avi is the Best Fit for VMC A/S pair A/S pair vSphere/vSAN Cluster(s) AWS Global Infrastructure AWS Global Infrastructure VMC SDDC ELB
- 6. Confidential │ ©2021 VMware, Inc. 6 Avi for VMC on AWS Benefits Deliver load balancing for VMC applications quickly and cost-effectively Elasticity & Performance Visibility & Analytics Simplified Operations • Elastic, on-demand LB capacity • Dynamic autoscaling of virtual services • Active-active deployments support customer app performance at scale • Pinpoint application performance and end- user experience issues • Full visibility to application response issues and security posture • Fast troubleshooting with per-app metrics and integrated analytics • Enterprise features (GSLB / WAF / analytics) in a single platform • “EasyAvi” Fling tool automates Day- 0 config/deployments • Single vendor support and certification from VMware
- 7. Confidential │ ©2020 VMware, Inc. 7 Control Plane Bare Metal Virtualized Containers ON PREMISES PUBLIC CLOUD Centralized policies and full lifecycle management Avi Distributed Architecture for Multi-Cloud Application Services Data Plane Avi Controller (Customer-managed | SaaS) ELASTICITY Application Services Fabric ANALYTICS / OBSERVABILITY AUTOMATION CENTRAL ORCHESTRATION RESILIENCE Avi PULSE
- 8. Confidential │ ©2020 VMware, Inc. 8 Powerful analytics-driven platform for multi-cloud application services Product Capabilities Software-Defined Platform App Services Elasticity Adaptive capacity management Automation Decision automation / Self-service Orchestration Central management Resilience High availability and self-healing Global Traffic Management Container Ingress Services Local Traffic Management Analytics & Observability App, User, & Security Insights Log Analytics Behavioral & ML Engine Appl Security & WAF GSLB Avi PULSE Cloud Services
- 9. Few-Clicks Deployment Bring the ease of use of modern load balancing to VMC with a few simple clicks Automated Operationalization Automate day 0 and day 1 operations in your VMC on AWS and make it application-ready Reduced Deployment Time Reduce the deployment time from hours to minutes From Day 0 to Application Ready EasyAvi Fling Tool
- 10. Confidential │ ©2021 VMware, Inc. 10 Bring modern, turnkey load balancing to VMC on AWS in minutes Day 0 Automation with EasyAvi Fling Tool Avi management traffic over secure channel API vCenter ESXI ESXI Deploy Controller and SEs on ESXi ESXI VMC on AWS vCenter ESXI ESXI Deploy Controller and SEs on ESXi ESXI VMC on AWS vCenter ESXI ESXI Deploy Controller and SEs on ESXi ESXI VMC on AWS Project EasyAvi Access Requirements: • Internet Access • VMC API • SDDC Policy API • vCenter API • Avi Controller API
- 11. Confidential │ ©2021 VMware, Inc. 11 Download EasyAvi Fling Tool https://flings.vmware.com/easy-deploy-for-nsx-advanced-load-balancing
- 12. 12 Confidential │ ©2021 VMware, Inc. Demo
Editor's Notes
- VMware Cloud on AWS together with VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension enables customers to accelerate their cloud migration in the simplest, fastest and lowest risk way with compelling TCO. VMware CloudTM on AWS brings VMware’s enterprise class Software-Defined Data Center software to the AWS Cloud, and enables customers to run production applications across VMware vSphere®-based private, public and hybrid cloud environments, with optimized access to AWS services. Delivered, sold and supported by VMware and its partners as an on-demand service, VMware Cloud on AWS enables IT teams to manage their cloud-based resources with familiar VMware tools – without the hassles of learning new skills or utilizing new tools. VMware Cloud on AWS integrates VMware’s flagship compute, storage and network virtualization products (VMware vSphere®, VMware vSANTM and VMware NSX®) along with VMware vCenter® management and robust disaster protection, and optimizes it to run on dedicated, elastic, Amazon EC2 bare-metal infrastructure that is fully integrated as part of the AWS Cloud. With the same architecture and operational experience on-premisess and in the cloud, IT teams can now quickly derive instant business value from use of the AWS and VMware hybrid cloud experience. VMware SDDC running on AWS bare metal Sold, operated & supported by VMware & its partners On-demand capacity & flexible consumption Full operational consistency with on-premisess SDDC Seamless workload portability and hybrid operations Global AWS footprint, reach, availability Direct access to native AWS services VMware Hybrid Cloud Extension (HCX) provides application migration and infrastructure hybridity without application downtime or infrastructure retrofit. The VMware HCX service offers bi-directional application landscape mobility and datacenter extension capabilities between any vSphere version. HCX includes patent-pending capabilities to support VMware vSphere® vMotion®, Bulk Migration, High Throughput Network Extension, WAN optimization, traffic engineering, automated VPN with Strong Encryption (Suite B) and secured datacenter interconnectivity with built-in vSphere protocol proxies. VMware HCX enables cloud on-boarding without retrofitting source infrastructure supporting migration from vSphere 5.0+ to VMware Cloud on AWS without introducing application risk and complex migration assessments.
- Key Ideas Cloud provider LBs are not enterprise-grade yet provide good automation and elastic scale. Why not both? Customers should not have to choose between features and automation / analytics, not to mention lack of multi-cloud consistency Virtual appliances are not cloud-native and carry the same architectural debt like legacy LBs Transcription A lot of customers that we're talking to today, the majority of them are multi-cloud. They may be on premise, but they're doing some exploration of a Kubernetes or also looking at maybe something like an Azure and AWS. They're looking at different environments or different opportunities like this as to where they may be able to change things up and try to improve the efficiencies. What you find is that they start looking at, if I'm going to go into a public cloud, maybe I'll just take a look at using that public clouds load balancer. The automation tends to be much better, in fact, the elasticity actually is much better, but they tend to lack in features. They tend to lack in performance. They also tend to require a lot of do it yourself. A lot of stitching together. A lot of tools to make them work and to make them functional. If you want to go multi-cloud, if you want to have different environments like this on premise. Plus in the cloud, plus may be different. Something like vCenter as well as Kubernetes, as well as OpenStack and OpenShift. And now you're finding that you're using different load balancer in every environment. That lack of cloud consistency becomes very, very expensive to manage. And on top of all of this, any of these public cloud load balancers have very, very limited visibility. You're flying blind, but the customers have the choice of either the cloud load balancer or that more legacy approach that they've been used to before. And those legacy approach, yes, they have great features, but they have very minimal automation, very minimal elasticity, so customers are effectively torn between these two choices.
- Avi Networks Vantage platform, now known as VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer is a modern – software defined – elastic – application delivery fabric. It is composed of a central control plane and a distributed data plane. Avi Controllers provide a centralized policy engine which delivers full life-cycle management for applications Avi Service Engines are the load-balancers which can be deployed anywhere, natively in a fully orchestrated fashion by the Avi Controllers, On-premise or in the public-clouds. Avi Controller consumes application intent via REST APIs and strives to realize that intent. As an example Avi Controller would - Creates Avi SEs - Acquires IP for VIP through IPAM - Registers FQDN to DNS - Manages application certificates - and so on ... All the user ever needs to do is to simply convey the intent Eliminates the problems of overprovisioning and overspending by scaling load balancers elastically based on real-time traffic. Provides a self-healing fabric. If an Avi SE fails, applications are dynamically moved to other available Avi SEs ensuring that the required capacity for applications is always available and also creates new Avi SEs to replace the failed Avi SE. Provides a single point of control and multi-cloud support: This enables a universal solution for traditional, modern, and cloud-native use cases across all environments. Applications can reside on any-cloud and Avi Controllers would provide the same level of automation regardless of where the application is provisioned. Provides rich performance monitoring and visibility into client, security, and application insights that simplifies troubleshooting and automates decisions.
- Key Message: Developer ready infrastructure is comprised of many components, and brining so many pieces together can be a challenge. However, Cloud Foundation provides everything you need, in a single comprehensive solution. Talk Track: While VMware Cloud Foundation makes it easy to deploy Kubernetes on your datacenter, it is by no means the only way. So why run Kubernetes on Cloud Foundation? Providing developer ready infrastructure requires the integration of many different components. There's the compute infrastructure where you will host the Kubernetes control plane and worker nodes. There's the network infrastructure needed to provide connectivity, load balancing, NAT’ing, as well as supporting ingress and egress traffic flows. There's the underlying storage infrastructure needed to provide persistent storage services to the workloads deployed by Kubernetes. Sourcing these different components in a piecemeal fashion, and across multiple vendors is challenging and introduces complexity. Cloud Foundation on the other hand, provides is a complete solution for running Kubernetes right out of the box. There are no 3rd party add-ons and no requirements to integrate external components. Notes: - We use the term “supervisor cluster” to denote a vSphere cluster where the native K8s functionality provided by vSphere 7 has been enabled. Customers can deploy container workloads directly on the supervisor cluster. However, it’s important to understand that the K8s version used on the supervisor cluster is tied to the version of vSphere. A more common use case for developers is to limit the use of the “supervisor cluster” to bootstraping Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Clusters, or what are referred to as “guest clusters”. With TKG clusters the developers can deploy upstream conformant K8s using different K8s versions. As such, we call out TKG on the slide and are not calling out the native K8s capabilities. - The focus of this slide is to show that we complete solution for VMs and Containers, with the flexibility to meet the developers needs through support for TKG. References: