To ensure the full potential of your virtual platform solution, you need to make sure your application and storage network is prepared to handle the added stresses of a virtual machine (VM) infrastructure. F5® technology enables your network to adapt to virtualization needs, ensure high availability (HA), maximize resources, and improve performance so you can get the most out of your investment.
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T o ensure the full potential of your virtual platform solution, . P revents VM sprawl. When all app traf? c is routed through you need to make sure your application and storage network is BIG-IP LTM, images are added to the pool and con? gured for prepared to handle the added stresses of a virtual machine (VM) the correct app before they are available to traf? c.®infrastructure. F5 technology enables your network to adapt to virtualization needs, ensure high availability (HA), maximize 3 CHALLENGE: Additional, unanticipated costs-the virtual resources, and improve performance so you can get the most out solution costs m ore than the physical problemof your investment. A dditional costs often result from implementing OS virtualization; new hardware and software licenses can be required to solve 1 CHALLENGE: D epleted resources- performance and problems with availability, performance, and management. availability suffer . As VMs burden the existing infrastructure, requirements grow Performance issues-often created by a move from physical for app and storage networks.hardware to virtual hardware-and VM saturation cause . Management of new tools requires increased headcount and application networking resources to be depleted at a much faster training.rate. . VM sprawl creates orphaned virtual disk images that take up . I /O intensive operations get bogged down in the virtualization critical storage space.translation layer. . Saturation of the network card and software switch on the SOLUTION: BIG-IP LTM for load balancing VMs, SSL ® ® physical host causes performance issues, reduced bandwidth, of? oad, caching, and compression. F5 Acopia ARX and increased latency. for virtualized and tiered storage. . With BIG-IP LTM already in place, there is no need to buy ® SOLUTION: F5 BIG-IP Local Traf? c ManagerT (LTM) for new gear because it is just as effective in the virtual space resource of? oading, including SSL processing, caching, when managing and delivering application traf? c. and compression. . An investment in BIG-IP LTM is smart planning for future . Uses resources more ef? ciently by keeping VM resources growth because it will help optimize the virtual infrastructure focused on what they do best. and scale with it. . Boosts performance by putting I/O-intensive networking . ARX virtualizes the storage network and enables it to scale processes on a purpose-built appliance. with VM requirements without any rearchitecting. . Using tiered storage with ARX to put critical virtual disk 2 C HALLENGE: Lack of application awareness- images and data ? les on tier 1 and store less frequently OS virtualization doesn't virtualize the application used images on lower tiers will prevent sprawl and reduce V irtual infrastructure platforms include software that can migrate backup costs. running VM instances from one physical device, which often causes a lapse in app availability. 4 CHALLENGE: Unused virtualization features-the . When VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) moves network limits implementationan image to a different physical box, the app is unavailable New virtual platforms include many advanced networking during the migration, interrupting the customer's persistence technologies, such as software switching and support for VLAN as well as shopping cart transactions. segmentation; however these features are localized and isolated . Bringi... [download for more]
