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Virtualizing Application Delivery for the Cloudg pp y
Paul NicholsonSr. Product Marketing Manager
www.a10networks.com
Agenda
Application Delivery Controllers pp yhCloud ComputinghVirtualizationhVirtualization
Finding the right approachhVirtualizing the ADC PlatformhVirtualizing the ADC ResourcesVirtualizing the ADC ResourceshIntegrating with Virtualized Resources
Summary & Conclusion
A10 Networks OverviewA10 Networks Overview
Corporate Vision: To be the technology leader in Web pApplication Delivery solutions
Founder: Lee Chen, co-founder of Foundry Networks & Centillion Networks
A10 Expertise: Networking, applications & security
Headquarters: San Jose, California. Local offices worldwide.
Cloud Computing & Virtualization Concepts
“In the cloud” versus the t d t tcorporate datacenter
Elasticity: Virtualization as ythe enablerMulti-tenancyMulti-tenancyCommodity or appliance h dhardware“Everything as a service” y gTrend
What are Application Delivery Controllers?
Application Entry Point
UsersPoint
ScalabilityAvailability Security
Cloud EvolutionL d b l
Security
Data Center
Load balancerADC
Advanced ADC
Vital Infrastructure
For cloud & hypervisorsReduce cost &
complexity
ADCs Solving Customer Issues
SaaS Solution County governmentSaaS Solution Collaboration in the cloudL4 L7 Application Delivery
County governmentOptimize & accelerate VMware serversL4-L7 Application Delivery
Removed traffic bottlenecks Automated management with aXAPI
Performance User reaction!““What have you done to speed up the Website?
It is incredibly fast now.”
Cloud Flexibility On-demand
Scale up as Scale up as Traffic IncreasesIncreases
Scale down as traffic traffic decreases
Virtualization Meeting Customer Requirements
Wide choice of Wide choice of virtualization optionsPrivate or Public CloudsScale as you grow Operational Flexibility
ADC Virtualization Overview
SoftADCSoftADC applianceSoftADC applianceADC internal ADC internal virtualization3 d t i t ti & 3rd party integration & solutions
Software ADC also known as the “SoftADC”
Software based ADC Software based ADC running on a hypervisor Leverage commodity hardwarehardwareScale hardware or ADCs on demandPortable & flexible ADCPortable & flexible ADC
Software ADC Limitations
Performance Hardware dependent Hypervisor overheadResource contentionResource contention
Hardware not designed f ADCfor ADCs
Software ADC Usage Examples
Hardware Appliances Hardware Appliances for performance
S f C f fhSoftADC for flexibility
Early stage Early stage applicationsOn-demand ADCTest environmentsTest environments
SoftADC Appliance
VM flexibility, li li bilitappliance reliability
Hardware & software Hardware & software HA “Bare metal” hypervisorypSupport, compliance and performanceand performance
SoftADC Appliance
Hypervisor assigns hardware resources per ADC VMyp g pCustom ADC Series hardware advantages
Including port density ASIC & RPSIncluding port density, ASIC & RPS
ADC Virtualization
ADC segmentationghOnly see the allocated
resourcesresources
Application Delivery Partitions (ADPs) Partitions (ADPs) Cost effectivehServe multiple
applications Multi-tenancy
hLess hardware
VMware vSphere with the ADC
Optimizes the virtualized pnetworkADCs offer distinct featuresOff load network & application processinghReduces VMshReduces hardware
Faster web browsing Reduce VM SprawlReduce VM Sprawl
VMware vSphere ADC Optimization VMware vSphere ADC Optimization Acceleration & off-load
f (technologies for virtual (or real) serversOff l d t i t i Off-load compute intensive taskshTCP O ti i ti hTCP Optimization hSSL Off-loadhRAM C hi hRAM Caching hCompression off-load
SSL off-loadCompressionRAM Content Caching
VMware vCenter & ADC IntegrationVMware vCenter & ADC Integration
Infrastructure reacts to Infrastructure reacts to demandhElasticityy
vCenter changes ADC configurationTriggered by serverhCPU utilization CPU utilization hMemory usage
A10 Virtualization Offerings
Public or Private Cloud EnablementFlexible ADC choicehHardware and/or softwareh Internal AX appliance virtualization
Comprehensive 3rd party integrationp p y g
A10 Approach to Customer Engagement
Discuss customers needsThe ADC is essential for VM deployment deployment Scripting (aXAPI) powers flexibilityflexibilityHosting provider applicationsEnterprises deploying private cloudsclouds