Presented by Charlie Cano Solution Architect, VMware Alliance

1. Maximizing the Agility of your Virtualized Infrastructure: How F5 and VMware can help you get the most out of your mission-critical applications • Presented by • Charlie Cano • Solution Architect, VMware Alliance

2. How Does F5 Help Virtualization? • Lower Costs • Higher VM Density = Less servers, rack space, power • Improved Agility & Efficiency • Automation = Fewer manual tasks for IT staff • Advanced Networking Integration = Better use of Resources, Improved Business Continuity

3. F5 & VMware • F5 & VMware are active partners • Interoperability & Performance Testing • vSphere, vCenter, AppSpeed, SRM, View, etc. • Joint Deployment Guides • Future joint development plans in progress • Dedicated alliance teams

4. Server Virtualization & F5

5. F5 Has Been Improving Enterprise App Performance & Availability for 10 years • Network Functions are as critical to virtual as physical apps • Load balancing • Traffic Management • Traffic Optimization • Acceleration • Security

6. Improving VM Density Offload Typical virtualized server Same server with BIG-IP • SSL • Caching • Compression • One Connect • TCP Optimization

7. Example: Reduced CPU Utilization on SAP Portal on ESX 3.5 68% 38% Joint testing conducted at SAP Co-Innovation Lab

8. Automating the Network Changes BIG-IP LTM & VMware vCenter integrated for automatic provisioning of local VMs on demand • Respond to changes in traffic volume • Provision to mean rather than peak • Reduce manual labor • BIG-IP GTM & VMware SRM integrated to enable failover between sites • GTM makes traffic follow SRM failover • Automatic • Minimize Application Downtime

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

10. Illustration: GTM & SRM Integration SRM Failover Ongoing Replication Site 1 Site 2 • GTM Health checks reveal unhealthy site 1. • GTM self-executes a redirection to site 2.

11. WAN Acceleration for VMwarevMotion, Storage vMotion & View • Overcome latency, packet loss and low bandwidth • BIG-IP iSessions™ • Free feature of LTM, no additional boxes required • Compression, Optimization • WAN Optimization Module • Add-on Module for LTM • Accelerates VMware View remote desktop traffic on average 12:1 • Can accelerate vMotion up to 25:1 • Improved user experience over any link • Acceptable connections over weak links • Compression, Optimization, De-duplication

12. Cloud Computing & F5

13. Long Distance VMotion – Why? • Use Cases • Migration • Disaster avoidance • Capacity expansion • Problems Solved: • Network redirection of client traffic from site 1 to site 2 • Loss of app sessions when migrating to another location • Performance problems caused by latency or bandwidth

14. Escaping Boundaries Between DCsNew Use Cases for Well Established Functionality • Disaster Avoidance • Capacity Expansion • Migrate Apps between DCs • Migrate Apps between Clouds • Follow the sun/moon iSession tunnel

15. Acceleration & Encryption • F5 testing results of common bandwidth/latency combinations • iSessions™ or WAN Optimization Module™ • SSL encryption • Acceleration • TCP Optimization -Byte-level deduplication • Dynamic compression Able to successfully VMotion in conditions where previously failed

16. On-Demand Scalability in the Cloud Scale-up by simply plugging in a new blade. Zero configuration On-Demand Scaleability Internal Cloud External Cloud On-Premise Servers LAN

17. Dynamic & Intelligent Traffic Management between Cloud & DC Dynamically load balance between data centers based on application availability, time of day, etc. Take into account all tiers of the application Remote Users Internet or WAN BIG-IP Link Controller Enterprise Manager DMZ Firewalls BIG-IP SAM BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager BIG-IP Link Controller Enterprise Manager DMZ BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager FirePass Firewalls BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager Blade Servers Database Servers Blade Servers HQ Site 1 Database Servers

18. Secure & Optimized Tunnel between Cloud & DC“BIG-IP iSessions” Integrated and free with BIG-IP LTM v10 • Symmetric Compression • Adaptive • Deflate • LZO • SSL Encryption Note: Not available on the 1500 and 3400

19. Multi-Tenancy“Route Domains” BIG-IP v10: Managing Networks in the Cloud • Host multiple departments/organizations on one BIG-IP without conflicts • Granular control to provide separate routing domains and overlapping IPs Department A Department B

20. Desktop Virtualization & F5

21. LTM Offload from View Manager Servers View Manager load grows over time But LTM can improve View Manager Server Efficiency, Resulting in fewer servers needed and better performance

22. LTM Acceleration of RDP* Traffic LTM can also accelerate RDP traffic up to 12:1 using its WAN Optimization Module Encrypted, Accelerated, Deduplicated Tunnel

23. VDI/View Deployment Wizard

24. Answer some simple questions

25. Automatically creates all necessary objectsClick on any to customizeIf no customization needed, you’re done!