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Radware Solutions for the Virtualized Data Center Presenter, Title January 2010

Radware Solutions for the Virtualized Data Center Presenter, Title January 2010. Agenda. Introduction to virtualization Virtualized, Mission Critical Applications Challenges Radware Solution for Data Center Virtualization AppDirector value proposition in the virtual DC

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Radware Solutions for the Virtualized Data Center Presenter, Title January 2010

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  1. Radware Solutions for the Virtualized Data CenterPresenter, TitleJanuary 2010

  2. Agenda • Introduction to virtualization • Virtualized, Mission Critical Applications Challenges • Radware Solution for Data Center Virtualization • AppDirector value proposition in the virtual DC • USP #1: vAdapter - Sync Virtualization with the ADC • USP #2: VirtualDirector - Optimize QoE and Maintain SLA • Radware solution for Virtual Desktops • Summary

  3. Introduction to Server Virtualization

  4. Virtualization Hypervisor What is Server Virtualization? Running multiple Virtual Server instances on a physical server infrastructure by decoupling the Operating System Software from hardware. Enterprise App Operating System Operating System

  5. What is Server Virtualization? • Virtualization Main Benefits • CAPEX and OPEX savings: • Improved server utilization • Reduce hardware requirements by a 10:1 ratio or better • Green IT • Improved Manageability • Accelerate service provisioning time by 50-70% • Manage virtual machines from a central location Run multiple operating systems on a single server Create shared pools of server resources to optimize your infrastructure

  6. The Virtualization Market • Gartner, October 26 2009 • 16% of workloads run on virtual environment today • Prediction: 50% of workloads will be running on 58 million virtual machines by 2012 • IDC , October 26 2009 • 16.5% of all new servers shipped in Q2’09 were virtualized • An increase from 14.5% in second quarter of 2008

  7. Business Critical Apps Are Being Virtualized

  8. Server Virtualization Challenges for Mission Critical Apps

  9. Overcoming Obstacles to 100% virtualization Challenge: Ensure Availability Challenge: Ensure SLA & Performance Enterprise-wide rollout Crossing the Chasm Grass-root adoption Challenge: Ensure Scalability Challenge: Ensure Manageability Phase 1 – Non Critical Apps Phase 2- Critical Apps Phase 3 - Standardize Time

  10. AppDirector Value Proposition in the Virtual Data Center

  11. ADC and the Virtual Environment VirtualCenter Mainframe Customers AppDirector MiddleTier FrontTier VirtualizationInfrastructure(VI) Database servers Isolation Identification

  12. Addressing Availability Concerns • Radware ADC • Applications health checks • Zero downtime • Radware ADC • Zero downtime even in case of application failure • No need for redundant VMs • No need for new hardware • VMware HA • OS / Hardware health checks • For environments that can tolerate brief interruptions of service • VMware FT • Protects from physical failures • No downtime • 2 identical VMs

  13. Addressing Performance Concerns • Radware ADC • Offload CPU intensive tasks from the virtual resources: SSL offloading, Caching, Content compression, TCP multiplexing VMware vSphere – Superior Performance

  14. Addressing Scalability Concerns • Radware ADC • On Demand Scalability – license based scalability, zero-downtime • VMware vSphere – Better Scalability • Virtual Machine Scalability • Hot-add more resources to a VM • Easy provisioning of new VMs to support an application

  15. USP #1: vAdapter - Sync Virtualization with the ADC

  16. Overcoming Obstacles to 100% virtualization Challenge: Ensure Availability Challenge: Ensure SLA & Performance Enterprise-wide rollout Crossing the Chasm Grass-root adoption Challenge: Ensure Scalability Challenge: Ensure Manageability Phase 1 – Non Critical Apps Phase 2- Critical Apps Phase 3 - Standardize Time

  17. Traditional ADC vs. the future “The ability to deploy capacity and server images virtually increases speed of deployment by a factor of approximately 30”  Thomas Bittman, Gartner “A new server can be up and running in three minutes - it used to take Eli Lilly seven and a half weeks to deploy a server internally” Dave Powers, at Eli Lilly and Company Static Data Center Virtual Data Center • Changes are infrequent • Limited inter-team communications • Changes require manual intervention • Dynamic • Frequent updates • Includes all tiers: network, storage, applications, servers

  18. The Network Admin Challenge • The virtual data center is much more dynamic compared to its physical counterpart • Any configuration changes in the virtualization layer should also be reflected in the ADC • Otherwise, the virtual application availability and performance might be degraded • The challenge of keeping the static ADC aligned with application resources is becoming much more complex

  19. The ADC Must be Aligned with the Virtual Environment Here we go again • Time consuming • Prone to human errors • Increased risk • Time consuming • Prone to human errors • inter-team dependency • Increased risk

  20. Can Scripting Help? • Prone to errors • Time consuming • Management, visibility and auditing • Who writes and maintains the scripts? • Does the script guarantee the sync? • Inter-domain scripts

  21. Introducing vAdapter vAdapter is a virtual appliance for VMware virtual Infrastructure Automatic adaptation of ADC configuration to the relevant virtual infrastructure changes Tight integration with AppDirector and Alteon

  22. Applications Discovery • Automatically discover the ADC and VMware topology • Create mapping rules based on the discovered information

  23. vAdapter

  24. Network and VI Admins Retain Control Network Admins Control Layer4-7 Policies VI Admins Control Virtual Resources Allocations Automate tedious tasks

  25. vAdapter Network Diagram vCenter – VMware Management Server vAdapter listens to any configuration change in vCenter vAdapter vAdapter automatically configures the ADC with the new configuration change Mainframe Customers AppDirector or Alteon VI – Virtual Infrastructure Database servers

  26. About vAdapter • vAdapter is offered to Radware’s ADC customers FREE of charge (a $3600 value) • Management is provided as: • A plug-in to VMware management system • A standalone Web-based management app which does not require any additional installation • Semi-automated mode • Automatic actions are pending admin confirmation • Full audit trail

  27. Automating with Scripts vAdapter Scripts • Sophisticated logic out-of-the-box, examples: • Mapping / Discovery • Semi-automated mode • Logging/auditing • Flash based UI for management, visibility and control • Up-to-date by Radware • Sophisticated logic can be achieved only by extensive, time consuming coding • No UI for management, visibility and control • Up-to-date by customer VS

  28. vAdapter Benefits • vAdapter eliminates the need for: • Frequent manual ADC configuration updates • Constant coordination between network team and VI team • Scripting and manual configuration within the virtual environment • Resulting in: • VI admin and network admin time savings • Risk reduction and elimination of human errors

  29. USP #2: VirtualDirector – Optimize QoE

  30. Overcoming Obstacles to 100% virtualization Challenge: Ensure Availability Challenge: Ensure SLA & Performance Enterprise-wide rollout Crossing the Chasm Grass-root adoption Challenge: Ensure Scalability Challenge: Ensure Manageability Phase 1 – Non Critical Apps Phase 2- Critical Apps Phase 3 - Standardize Time

  31. Data Center Trends More than half of companies are well down the infrastructure consolidation path Gartner 11/2006 IT Infrastructure customer survey Customers … are seeking more advanced capabilities and tools for their virtual environments IDC 2006 customer survey Virtualization is a major enabler for infrastructure automation, and will help accelerate the trend toward IT operations process automationGartner Bittman 2007 Automation is expected to play a strong role in managing virtualization resources in the next 18 months Server Virtualization Maturity Index, IDC Jan 2007 Second phase of virtualization concentrates on the flexible allocation of resources to respond to business demand Gartner Bittman

  32. Dynamic Resource Allocation Virtual resources: all are fine VirtualCenter Peak in application traffic identified Application SLA / QoE Degradation Identification VirtualDirector Mainframe Customers AppDirector MiddleTier FrontTier VirtualizationInfrastructure(VI) Database servers

  33. Dynamic Resource Allocation • Automatic Actions: • Add a VM to support the load • Optimized load balancing - send new users to new virtual machine VirtualCenter Identification Optimization Actions VirtualDirector Mainframe Customers AppDirector MiddleTier FrontTier VirtualizationInfrastructure(VI) Database servers Isolation Identification

  34. Application Visibility Identification Optimization Actions Visibility

  35. VirtualDirector - Capabilities • Application status is determined by correlating different KPIs types: • Network KPIs • Business Events KPIs • Virtual Environment KPIs (CPU, Memory) • 3rd party solutions KPIs • Actions examples: • Add / Remove virtual resources • Optimize load balancing • Align bandwidth with applications business needs • Align virtual resource allocation with business needs • Stop sending traffic to unhealthy VMs • Redirect traffic to a second data center or to the cloud

  36. VirtualDirector – Capabilities cont • Tight integration between ADC and VMware • Gracefully stop sending traffic to VM instances before stopping their operation • Start sending traffic to new VM instances only after the VM is ready to handle the traffic • Visibility: • Real-time Dashboard • Full audit and logging of all actions for compliance • Powerful, flexible and easy to use scripting language enables: • Easy customization capabilities • Advanced identification of QoE problems • Customized policy engine • Advisory mode

  37. Radware’s Solution for Virtual Desktop

  38. Virtual Desktop Deployment VMware VI3 Platform Hosted virtual desktops Clients VMware Virtual Desktop Manager Manages connection from client to hosted desktop Single Point of Failure Not Scalable Load Balancing is Required VMware VirtualCenter Manages the VI3 platform Active Directory User authentication

  39. Radware ADC & VMware VDM Internet VirtualCenter Routers Virtual Desktops running on ESX Partners SSL LinkProof AppDirector LoadBalancing and SSL Offloading LinkProof Branch Routers Active Directory VDMConnection Servers Employees/Branch Offices

  40. Radware ADC and Virtual Desktop Increases the scalability and availability of virtual desktop deployments Ensures load distribution of requests and sessions across Virtual Desktop Manager (VDM) Connection Servers Ensures requests are properly routed to servers in the event of a failure Offloads SSL overhead from the servers

  41. Summary

  42. Overcoming Obstacles to 100% virtualization Challenge: Ensure Availability Challenge: Ensure SLA & Performance AppDirector Alteon VirtualDirector AppDirector Alteon And, Unique solution for the cloud and Virtual Desktops Enterprise-wide rollout Crossing the Chasm Grass-root adoption Challenge: Ensure Scalability Challenge: Ensure Manageability On-Demand Upgrades vAdapter Phase 1 – Non Critical Apps Phase 2- Critical Apps Phase 3 - Standardize Time

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