How Multi-Cloud Load Balancing Automates Application Delivery and Drives Operational Efficiency
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81% of enterprises have a multi-cloud strategy, with new requirements on automation and operational consistency across heterogeneous environments. We will explore how modern application services, including load balancing, security and analytics, help deliver applications consistently regardless of underlying infrastructures. Avi Networks now part of VMware, automates application delivery from a single software-defined platform. You will see live demos and learn how to: • Integrate into private and public cloud ecosystems including VMware, AWS, Azure, and more. • Deliver applications consistently using a software-defined and policy-driven platform. • Apply DevOps principles to application delivery and accelerate multi-cloud deployments.
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- 1. Confidential │ ©2019 VMware, Inc. How Multi-Cloud Load Balancin Automates Application Delivery Nathan McMahon Solution Architect Avi Networks, Now part of VMware
- 2. Confidential │ ©2019 VMware, Inc. 2 vSphere BRANCH BRANCH EDGE/IOT TELCO/NFV BRANCH BRANCH DC DC DC BRANCH Virtual Cloud Network Tied Together—Everywhere. vRNI CLEAR VISIBILITY NSX Intelligence DEEP INSIGHT
- 3. Confidential │ ©2019 VMware, Inc. 3 End to End Fabric All in Software Intrinsic Security 3
- 4. Confidential │ ©2019 VMware, Inc. 4 Who is Avi Networks “VMware enters the ADC market with the Avi Networks acquisition… “We can deliver industry’s only complete software-defined stack from L2-L7… “part of VMware NSBU…an advanced, standalone ADC offering that includes GSLB, WAF, analytics and monitoring…
- 5. Confidential │ ©2019 VMware, Inc. 5 The Foundation of the Virtual Cloud Network VMware NSX Portfolio NETWORK AND SECURITY VIRTUALIZATION Security Integration Extensibility Automation Elasticity NSX Data Center NSX Cloud AppDefense SD-WAN by VeloCloud HCX NSX Service Mesh NSX Advanced Load Balancer NSX Data Center NSX Cloud NSX Service Mesh VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) VMware Horizon & UAG +
- 6. Confidential │ ©2019 VMware, Inc. What is Multi-Cloud? • Public cloud only? – Traditional and cloud-native apps • Multiple Clouds vs. Multi-Cloud – Operational consistency • What if you could treat everything as a “Cloud” and have a “Single” platform
- 7. Confidential │ ©2019 VMware, Inc. Multi-Cloud is Both the Challenge and the Opportunity • 81% has multi-cloud strategy • On average, enterprises have almost 5 clouds • Running 3.1 clouds • Experimenting 1.7 clouds • 2.7 public clouds • 3.0 private clouds
- 8. Confidential │ ©2019 VMware, Inc. Multi-Cloud Give You Choice Features AutomationORAND
- 9. Confidential │ ©2019 VMware, Inc. 9 Hardware / Virtual Load Balancer Challenges DC1 DC2 DEPT1 DEPT2 Standby 0% Active 15% Separate control points – operational complexity, hard to automate, painful upgrades Capacity management – manual VIP placement, costly overprovisioning, no capacity pooling Not designed for modern new environments ON-PREMISES CLOUD CONTAINER
- 10. Confidential │ ©2019 VMware, Inc. 10 Load Balancing Challenges in the Public Cloud Limited features and performance Migration can slow down or even get stalled due to lack of consistency, speed and automation. Cloud Provider LB ON-PREMISES ? DNS WAF IPAM LOG … Automation and elasticity Limited visibility Need to stitch together multiple tools Lack of multi-cloud consistency ? Legacy LB Virtual editions are NOT cloud-native No automation or elasticity Feature richness
- 11. Confidential │ ©2019 VMware, Inc. 11 BARE METAL VIRTUALIZED CONTAINERSON PREMISES PUBLIC CLOUDVIRTUALIZED CONTAINERS Modern, Scalable, Multi-Cloud Architecture CONTROLLER SERVICE ENGINE SEPARATE CONTROL & DATA PLANE ELASTICITY INTELLIGENCE AUTOMATIONMULTI-CLOUD
- 12. Confidential │ ©2019 VMware, Inc. Consistent Application Services Across a Multi-Cloud Fabric CONTROLLER EPG Ingress Proxy Istio Security group Vcenter group Nsx manager Automatic deployement • Built-in ecosystem integration • Native cloud connectors • REST APIs Scale Set, IAM, VNET Resource groups VPC, EC2 Route53 APIC Nova, Neutron Keystone Lbaas Rest API Software Load Balancer Intelligent Web Application Firewall Container Ingress
- 13. Confidential │ ©2019 VMware, Inc. 13 Avi and VMware Integration
- 14. 14Confidential │ ©2019 VMware, Inc. Demo A single application services fabric across multiple clouds BARE METAL VIRTUALIZED CONTAINERS ON- PREMISES AZURE VIRTUALIZED CONTAINERS CONTROLLER SERVIC E ENGINE AWS VIRTUALIZED CONTAINERS
- 15. Confidential │ ©2019 VMware, Inc. 15 Adobe Accelerates Cloud Initiatives with Microsoft Azure Delivering applications reliably and securely both on- premises and in the cloud By reliably and securely delivering our applications, Avi Networks has become a key partner for our adoption of Azure. Brandon Pulsipher Vice President, Product Technical Operations Migrate the Adobe Experience Cloud to the Azure with enterprise-grade support Deliver thousands of SSL transactions per second, and elastic scale of load balancers and app servers based on real-time traffic Improve operations with app insights and central management of all load balancers
- 16. Confidential │ ©2019 VMware, Inc. Thank You
Editor's Notes
- The Virtual Cloud Network is the network model for the digital era. It is also VMware’s vision for the future of networking to empower customers to connect and protect applications and data, wherever they are running – in the data center, cloud or edge. With the Virtual Cloud Network, our goal is to create a seamless network that is defined entirely in software with maximum visibility and context for the interaction among users, applications, and data. Supporting multiple hypervisors as a well as various application form factors (VMs, containers, bare metal) helps us cater to the unique networking and security requirements across this wide variety of environments. Our strong partnerships with leading cloud service providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM) positions us as the networking leader as the market moves to a multi-cloud software-based future. With embedded NSX Intelligence and integrations with vRealize Network Insight and AppDefense, NSX is uniquely positioned to protect traffic at both the compute/application level as well as the network level.
- Here are the three main benefits of the Virtual Cloud Network - end to end fabric, all in software and with security that is intrinsic to the infrastructure. The Virtual Cloud Network enables organizations to connect everything in a distributed world representing a significant advancement in enterprise networking. All of this can only be done in software, consistent networking from end to end. Because it is all delivered in software, this brings together programmability, agility and adaptability that enables organizations to move faster. Security is built in. This is key as the old rule of “perimeter security” evolves from being a perimeter around a data center to one that is application and data centric - and intrinsic to the entire cloud fabric. This is about building consistency in network and security policy for data and apps regardless of where they are running – data center, branch, cloud or edge.
- Talk about acquisitions and re-state Tom’s message around the top reasons for acquiring Avi
- How Avi fits into the NSX portfolio but important to highlight: Continue to be offered as standalone LB for multi-cloud environments Plan to have the best integration with NSX and other VMWare products
- Visual cues: Appliance sprawling Time to manually provision Peak loads create hot spot Capacity management requires manual VIP placement lack of capacity pooling results in wasted capacity Planning for peak workloads require overprovisioning Separate control points Managing 100s of LB pairs result in operational complexity Time-consuming upgrades
- 100% software defined Built for scale / max utilization – A/A vs A/S – control plane separated from data plane Built for speed – scale out / horizontal architecture – add capacity on demand Flexible management – manage resources, and policies, seamlessly across your workloads from a single platform Granular analytics and visibility – real-time metrics / logs / triage for system health and solving mean time to resolution Automation and Orchestration – pre-built playbooks for Teraform and Ansible, and 100% rest API under the hood for seamless integrations Consistent experience - any app – any infrastructure – anywhere – one Avi – on-prem in the DC / bare metal – virtual – multi-cloud (AWS – Azure – GCP) - containers (Docker / K8’s) – service mesh (Istio) Max resiliency and HA – automatically redistribute workloads as needed across a flexible pool of capacity Responsiveness – accelerate CI/CD and never lets your initiatives slow you down GSLB – easily scale across zones and regions
- Next, I am going to talk about how Avi delivers these fundamental values. They need a solid foundation and 5 key building blocks. Avi Vantage Platform – 100% software defined, scalable and distributed modern architecture that best matches the new generation of applications Analytics – visibility is to see which is an important first step. The true value to businesses however comes from actionable insights that can help make better decisions Automation – again it’s more than REST APIs and Ecosystem integration. What makes automation increasingly important is that it’s the critical step to finally operationalize digital transformation – from vision to reality. Let me now go through each of these steps in details. Software defined principle – our architecture separates the control plane and data plane. It allows centralized management and policies with distributed data plane referred to as Ses. SEs can scale out and in automatically – seamless scaling based on workloads. Automation is really the invisible secret sauce that makes this possible. And to make full-stack automation, it’s key to integrate into a rich set of ecosystem with 100% clean REST APIs. SEs can be deployed across heterogeneous environment – x86 bare metal servers, in virtualized environments or along side containers in both on-prem data centers, private clouds and public clouds. Multi-cloud is important not only due to the flexibility and freedom it allows but also reduces your risk of being forced to put all your eggs in one basket. Ultimately, what’s driving all these is the intelligence Avi’s built in analytics brings. It helps your teams work smarter, your infrastructure to react to changing demands faster and enable you to make wiser decisions.
- 5. Automation – again it’s more than REST APIs and Ecosystem integration. Avi takes the analytics and feed into the controller (”brain”) to achieve autoscaling and full lifecycle management. It allows you to specify an intent, Avi does the automation and orchestration required to achieve the outcomes. What makes automation increasingly important is that it’s the critical step to finally operationalize digital transformation – from vision to reality.
- Here is a portfolio of Avi’s product capabilities. As mentioned before, application services Avi provides go beyond load balancing into security such as intelligent WAF and service mesh for container networking. Avi helps make your application PEAK ready, SECURITY ready and CLOUD-NATIVE ready all on one platform – the intent-based application services platform. You specify intents and we do the heavy lifting.