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Application Delivery: Adding Scalability & Flexibility While Reducing Costs
Todd Harcourt
Senior System Engineer, South Central Region
www.a10networks.com
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Agenda
Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs)
Cost Reduction while adding functionality
Capacity requirements
Data center consolidation
Virtualization opportunities
Server (and network) optimization
Licensing
Summary & conclusion
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A10 Networks Overview
Corporate Vision:
Founder:
A10 Expertise:
Headquarters:
To be the technology leader in Web Application Delivery solutions
Lee Chen, co-founder of Foundry Networks
& Centillion Networks
Networking, Applications & Security
San Jose, California. Local offices worldwide.
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Users
Cloud
Data Center
Availability
Scalability
What are Application Delivery Controllers?
Security
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Capacity Requirements
Concerns
Regular load
Peak loads
Growth
Monetize metrics
$ per Gb throughput
$ per connection per second
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Cost to Provide Capacity
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Data Center Consolidation Factors
Performance
Consolidation ratio
New feature impact
Maintenance costs
Rack space costs
Power & environmental costs
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Performance Per Watt (PPW)
70% or 12 metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) being eliminated per pair, per year
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Energy Costs
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Virtualization Opportunities
CAPEX & OPEX reduction
Flexibility & portability
Shared platforms
Single shared application
Multiple applications
Elastic infrastructure
Vertical & horizontal scaling
SoftADC
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Server (and Network) Optimization
Off-load compute intensive functions
Optimize network communications
Eliminate repetitive functions
Reduce management overhead
Bigger impact on virtual machines
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Licensing Impact
Extra $ for features or for performance?
Pay as you grow or “pay us more as you grow”?
Better to include upfront
The 5 button blender is better than the 3 button
Will you use the feature?
Moot point if all-inclusive
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A10 Application Delivery Offerings
Flexible Advanced ADC choice
Hardware and/or software
Internal AX appliance virtualization
Comprehensive 3rd party integration
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Dynamic Datacenter Provisioning
Infrastructure reacts to demand for “elasticity”
VMware vCenter changes AX Series configuration
Triggered by server
CPU utilization
Memory usage
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AX Series: Application Delivery Controller
Platform: Advanced Features & High Performance
Leverage multiple Layer 4-7 features without performance degradation
• 64-bit ACOS
• Multi-core CPU System
• Global Server Load
Balancing
• TCP Optimization
• Secure Email
• IPv4/IPv6
• Layer 7 Scripting
• DNS Application Firewall
• SIP Load Balancing
• Hardware SSL
Acceleration
• Spam Filter (PBSLB)
• Line Rate DDoS
Security
• High Availability
• Caching &
Compression
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AX Series Hardware & ACOS Performance
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AX Series Hardware & ACOS Performance
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Increased Performance & Reduced Cost
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Summary – Beyond the Purchase Price
Capacity for peak loads & consolidation
Virtualization is flexible & cost effective
Server (and network) optimization are key
Licensing, read the fine print
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Thank You
Todd Harcourt
Senior System Engineer, South Central Region
www.a10networks.com