Watch webinar on-demand https://info.avinetworks.com/webinars/accelerating-public-cloud-migration Avi Networks, now part of VMware, has helped many enterprises speed up their migration to the public clouds including Azure, AWS and Google Cloud. Learn why customers, especially those with a multi-cloud strategy, are choosing VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (by Avi Networks) to drive end-to-end automation, simpler operations and deeper visibility for load balancing and web application firewall. In this webinar, we will cover: - An insight into modern software load balancer architecture - A step-by-step guide to migrating applications to public clouds - Best practices for automating enterprise-grade load balancing - On-demand, elastic autoscaling of applications based on real-time analytics

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Accelerating Public
Cloud Migration with
Multi-Cloud Load
Balancing
Abhinav Modi
Group Product Line Manager at VMware
10th October 2019

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Agenda
2
Challenges with Application Delivery in a Multi-cloud
Environment
Introduction to Avi - VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer
Live Demo
Multi-cloud Use Cases
Q&A

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Multi-Cloud is Both the Challenge and the Opportunity
• 84% have multi-cloud strategy
• On average, enterprises have
almost 5 clouds
• Running 3.4 clouds
• Experimenting 1.5 clouds
• 24% Public Cloud growth
• 8% Private Cloud growth

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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

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Load Balancing Challenges in the Public Cloud
Limited features and performance
Migration can slow down due to refactoring, 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 rich

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BARE METAL VIRTUALIZED CONTAINERSON PREMISES PUBLIC CLOUDVIRTUALIZED CONTAINERS
VMware Advanced Load Balancer (by Avi Networks)
Modern, Scalable, Multi-Cloud Architecture
CONTROLLER
SERVICE
ENGINE
SEPARATE CONTROL
& DATA PLANE
ELASTICITY
INTELLIGENCE AUTOMATIONMULTI-CLOUD

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Consistent Application Services Across a Multi-Cloud Fabric
CONTROLLER
EPG
Ingress
Proxy
Istio
Security
group
vCenter group
NSX manager
Automatic
deployment
• Built-in ecosystem integration
• Native cloud connectors
• SaaS or customer-managed
Software Load Balancer
Intelligent
Web Application Firewall
Container Ingress
Scale Set,
IAM, VNET
resource
groups
VPC,
EC2
Route53
APIC
Nova,
Neutron
Keystone
LBaas
Rest API
Istio

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VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (by Avi Networks)
• Web App Firewall
• SSL Termination
• DDoS Protection
• L3-4 ACLs
• L7 Rules/Policies
• Rate Limiting
SECURITY
• Application Map
• Service Health Score
• Network Performance
• App Performance
• Request Logging
• Security Insights
ANALYTICS
• Central Management
• 100% REST API / SDK
• Self-Service
• Multi-Tenancy
• Service Discovery
• IPAM/DNS
PLATFORM
• L7 (HTTP) LB
• L4 (TCP/UDP) LB
• Global Load Balancing
• Content Switching
• Caching/Compression
• Autoscaling
LOAD BALANCING
Features
(K8S, OpenShift, PKS, AKS, GKE,
EKS, ...)
• Enterprise-grade Ingress
• Converged LB, Security, Analytics
• Service Discovery & App Map
• Multi-cluster and Multi-cloud
Containers
Use
Cases
(ESXi, x86, NSX, ACI, OpenStack…)
• Central Management
• Real-time Analytics
• SDN Integration and Automation
• Cost Savings
SDDC / On-Prem
(AWS, Azure, GCP, VMC, …)
• Cloud-native Automation
• Enterprise-grade Features
• Real-time Analytics
• Multi-cloud Consistency
Public Cloud
Comprehensive Application Services Platform and Full Lifecycle Automation

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Avi and VMware Integration
VM VMWeb-tier
10.10.1.0/24
Web-2 Web-3
.21 .22
Avi SE
Active-Active
VM
Web-1
.20
10.10.1.10
Security-Group
Web-Tier
Avi
Controller
Client
VM VMWeb-Tier
10.10.1.0/24
Web-2 Web-3
.21 .22
Avi SE
Active-Active
VM
Web-1
.20
10.10.1.10 10.10.1.11
vCenter
Avi
Controller
Client
vCenter
NSX
10.10.1.10 10.10.1.11

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Avi and AWS Integration

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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

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Avi and Microsoft Azure Integration

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Avi and VMC Integration

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Million scale
Google Cloud Platform – Autoscaling to 1 Million SSL TPS!

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Global Server Load Balancing
Leader Site - DC 1
VS-A1 VS-B1
DNS
VS-A4
DNS
All GSLB configuration is performed at
the “Leader” Controller
“Leader” Controller syncs the
configuration to all the “Follower” sites
Active Follower Site - AWS
Admin
VS-B3
Active Follower Site - DC 2
VS-A2
DNS
Passive Follower Site Azure
VS-B2
VS-A3
• Geo algorithm – user-proximity
• Two-level nested algorithm support
• DNS policies and Topology policies for
preferred/fallback site and other site
selection logic
• Active/Active - Application high availability
across data center failures.
• Active/Standby - Disaster recovery
• Hybrid cloud with “cloud bursting”
Use Cases
Features

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SoftLayer
GCP
Branch
Model 4 (Large US Retail): Public Cloud backend, Branch front-end
On-Prem AWS
Model 1 (Global Telco IT): AWS as extension of on-prem DC
Direct
Connect
Model 2 (Global Bank): Azure and On-Prem DC as peer DCs hosting apps
On-Prem Azure
Direct
Connect
On-Prem Azure
...
...
Direct Connect
Model 3 (Global Payments): On-prem DC + GCP for backend and remote SEs
On-Prem
On-Prem
...
GCP
Remote GCPs
Multi-Cloud Deployment Models

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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

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Infrastructure-centric Silos to Application-centric Multi-cloud Strategy
Manual, Complex and Fragmented Single, Universal and Automated
BARE METAL VIRTUALIZED CONTAINERS
ON-PREMISES
CONSISTENCY
SIMPLICITY
VISIBILITY
1. Multi-cloud
world today
2. Siloed point
products & services
3. Automate &
orchestrate, visualize
and monitor

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