Transcript Who Is F5 Networks? - NetApp Solution Connection

FlexPod: Increasing Customer
Value with Application Delivery
Marcel Noyes
Global Alliance Development
[email protected]
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Agenda
• Who is F5 Networks?
• Complementing FlexPod with Application Delivery
• Overview of the F5 solution
• How the F5 solution adds customer value:
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Greater scale
Increased flexibility
Business and application continuity
Application security
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Company Snapshot
Revenue
• Leading provider of
Application Delivery
Networking products
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Service
• Founded 1996, public
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– FY10: $882M
– FY11: $1.2B
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• Revenue
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• ~2,615 employees
Product
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Who Is F5 Networks?
Value Innovation
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Unique TMOS architecture
Industry’s only open iControl API & SDK
Powerful iRules and DevCentral Community
Numerous Industry Patents
Proven Results
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SC Magazine Reader Trust Award
FY11 Revenue: $1.2B
#1 in Advanced Platform ADC Market – Gartner
F5 Wins VMware Global Technology Innovator Award
Application Partnerships
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Unique F5 and application vendor integration
Application partner tested and documented solutions
F5 solutions in partner labs
Cooperative Support Agreements
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Organizations Worldwide Trust F5
F5 Customer highlights
• 8 of the Fortune 10 companies1
• 44 of the Fortune 50 companies1
• 18 of the top 20 US commercial banks1
• 5 of the 5 top US airlines1
• 9 of the top 10 US insurance companies property and casualty1
• 5 of the top 5 healthcare: pharmacy and
other services1
• 15 of the 15 executive branch departments
of the US federal government2
• 10 of the top 10 fixed AND mobile global
service providers3
• 4 of the top 5 US Internet search providers4
• 16 of 20 cloud infrastructure and Web
hosting companies5
Sources: 1 Fortune 2011; 2 USA.gov Web site listing 3 Q311 Ovum Market share, by revenue, global; 4 Comscore May 2011; 5 Gartner Magic Quadrant Public Cloud
Infrastructure as a Service (On Demand, December 2011)
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Complementing FlexPod Infrastructures
Application
• Optimizing for applications:
– Increases scale and flexibility
– Ensures business continuity
Compute
– Unifies application security
– Further reduces deployment time
Network
– Improves return on investment (ROI)
– Increases value to the customer
Storage
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Where Application Delivery Fits
Application Delivery Network (ADN)
Apps
Servers
Network
Storage
• Creating a dynamic application environment:
– Enables a Software-as-a-Service (Saas) model
– Accelerates evolution to IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS)
– Provides benefits to applications at every stage
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Journey to the Cloud
An Application Perspective
Liberate
Automate
Aggregate
Consolidate
Separate
Capacity On-Demand
Self-Managing
Data Center
Enterprise Computing
On and Off Premise
Server Consolidation
Test and Development
Hypervisor
Hypervisor
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Validated Designs
Application partner tested and documented
Cooperative support agreements
Gartner: #1 in Advanced Platform ADC Market
VMware Technology Innovator Partner of the Year
F5 BIG-IP
SQL
Server
Cooperative
Support
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SAP
View
SQL
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Share
Point
View
Validated
Designs
Secure Multi-Tenancy
FlexPod for
VMware
Specialized Partner Ecosystem
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Where Does F5 Fit?
Within the Data Center
BIG-IP
Local Traffic Manager
• Increase application performance
• Deploy more applications per FlexPod
• Ensure application availability
• Seamlessly scale FlexPod up and out
• Automate application scale up and out
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Where Does F5 Fit?
Between Data Centers
BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager
+ WAN Optimization Manager
Within the Data Center
BIG-IP
Local Traffic Manager
• Increase application performance
• Ensure business continuity
• Deploy more applications per FlexPod
• Secure and accelerate data
• Ensure application availability
replication
• Seamlessly scale FlexPod up and out
• Automate application scale up and out
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Where Does F5 Fit?
Mobile Users
Remote Office
Between Data Centers
BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager
+ WAN Optimization Manager
Connecting Mobile Users
• Ensure business continuity
BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager
• Unify application access
+ Application Policy Manager
• Secure and accelerate data
• Reduce AAA infrastructure costs
replication
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Critical Apps Require an Advanced ADN
Performance
Comprehensive Load Balancing
Faster, more responsive applications
Scale
Server Offload
Application Resource Pooling
Higher FlexPod scale up
Seamless FlexPod scale out
Flexibility
Application Resource Pooling
vCenter integration
Seamless application scaling
Responsive application environment
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Critical Apps Require an Advanced ADN
Business Continuity
DC / App Health Monitoring
WAN Optimization
Live Application Failover
Security
Unified Application Access
Improved application availability
Better replication performance
Enhanced DR posture
Simplified application security,
reduced access costs and overhead
Management
iApp Templates
Easy-to-deploy applications
iRules / iControl
Extreme customizability
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Greater Scale within a FlexPod
• Scale up further within each FlexPod
– Increase efficiency and customer value
Increased workflow
Business workflow
More revenue
Revenue
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Greater Scale within a FlexPod
Improving Application Performance
Challenge: Poor application performance reduces business workflow
Solution: F5 BIG-IP reduces traffic volumes and minimizes
bottlenecks and network latency
Benefit: Accelerate application performance up to 300%, increase
business workflow
Application Optimization
Users
Load balancing
BIG-IP
Local Traffic Manager
Applications
FlexPod
Application
switching
QoS rate shaping
TCP optimization
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Greater Scale within a FlexPod
Increasing VM Density
Challenge: CPU resources consumed by non-core functions
Solution: Off-load non-essential functions to F5 BIG-IP
Benefit: Greater VM density increases scale within FlexPod, more
applications within same footprint
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SSL
Caching
Compression
TCP Opt.
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VM
SSL
Caching
Compression
TCP Opt.
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Dynamically Flex Your Infrastructure
• Shift application resources to meet changing demand
– Seamlessly scale application resource pool
– Better respond to changing business conditions
Morning
Mid-Day
Evening
BIG-IP
Local Traffic Manager
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Dynamically Flex Your Infrastructure
Seamlessly Scale Applications
Users
Challenge: IT overhead with
provisioning new applications
Solution: Application resource
pooling with F5 BIG-IP
Benefit: Reduced IT overhead
and seamless application scale
out across multiple FlexPods
BIG-IP Local
Traffic Manager
Virtual application
resource pool
Application
Resources
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Dynamically Flex Your Infrastructure
Automate VM Provisioning
Challenge: Responding to
spikes in application traffic
Solution: Automate application
provisioning with F5 BIG-IP LTM
with VMware vCenter
Benefit: Faster response to
changing business conditions
and reduced IT overhead
vCenter
Application
Demand
BIG-IP
Local Traffic Manager
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vCenter Server
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FlexPod
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Business Continuity
• Ensure that business applications are always on
– Maintain application availability
– Automate live application failover
– Accelerate SnapMirror
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Business Continuity
Ensure Application Availability
Users
Challenge: Poor application
health and downtime
impacting business workflow
BIG-IP
Global Traffic Manager
Availability
Data Center 1
Data Center 2
BIG-IP
Local Traffic Manager
BIG-IP
Local Traffic Manager
Availability
Availability
FlexPod
FlexPod
Solution: Ensure global and
local application availability
with F5 BIG-IP
Benefit: Maximize application
uptime within and between
multiple data centers
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Business Continuity
Automate Live Application Failover
Users
Challenge: High IT overhead
and business downtime
during application failover
BIG-IP
Global Traffic Manager
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Data Center 1
User connection
routing
Data Center 2
BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager
BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager
+ WAN Optimization Manager
+ WAN Optimization Manager
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FlexPod
vCenter A
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Sessions secure,
accelerated tunnel
Transfer VM from
vCenter A to B
FlexPod
vCenter A
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Reclaim IP address
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vMotion
VMware ESX
VMware ESX
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Solution: Live automated
application failover with F5
BIG-IP and VMware vCenter
Benefit: Improved DR
posture, reduced downtime,
and lower IT overhead
Storage vMotion
over iSessions
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Business Continuity
Accelerate SnapMirror Data Replication
Challenge: Unpredictable
network latency when
replicating application data
BIG-IP WAN
Optimization Manager
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Solution: Optimize, compress,
and deduplicate replication
traffic with F5 BIG-IP WOM
Benefit: Faster replication
performance, lower bandwidth
consumption, and higher QoS
BIG-IP WAN
Optimization Manager
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Data Center 1
Data Center 2
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Application Security
Mobile Users
Remote Office
Unencrypted (RDP)
Encrypted
(DTLS or SSL)
Data Center
• Consolidate, secure, and
simplify application security
– Unify application access
– Secure SnapMirror data
replication
FlexPod
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Application Security
Unified Application Access
Challenge: Managing multiple access points to application and
network resources for local and mobile employees
Solution: Consolidate access with F5 BIG-IP APM
Benefit: Simplified management and reduced AAA capital and
operating costs for virtual application environments
Clients
User PK Certificate
Directory
Forms-Based
Authorization
OAM v10g
OAM v11g
LDAP
RADIUS
OCSP
CRLDP
TACACS+
BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager
+ Access Policy Manager
Basic Authorization
CAC/PIV/Smartcard
RSA Token
Kerberos
Applications
HTTP Basic
HTTP Form
HTTP Header
NTLM v1
NTLM v2
Kerberos
OAM v10g
OAM v11g
Cookie
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Application Security
Secure Data Replication
Challenge: Ensuring secure
data replication over public
networks
iSessions
iSessions
BIG-IP WAN
Optimization Manager
BIG-IP WAN
Optimization Manager
FlexPod
FlexPod
Data Center 1
Data Center 2
Solution: Symmetric site-to-site
secure connection and data
encryption with F5 BIG-IP WOM
Benefit: Reduced data security
risk with data replication
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Application Case Study
VMware View
BEFORE
<2000 users per connection server
Deployments >10,000 users require
multiple separate cluster deployments
AFTER
Load balance multiple connection servers
to serve >70,000 concurrent users
Load balance multiple clusters for
>70,000 users in a single deployment
Limited simultaneous login capacity;
cannot handle 8:00 A.M. boot storms
Offload authentication to BIG-IP to dramatically
increase simultaneous login capacity
View deployment limited to single DC
Load balance users among multiple DCs
DaaS providers: every client gets
different authentication point
Windows-based View Security Gateways
often not allowed in DMZ
Remote access: firewalls set to block port 4172
Mobile users manually choose location
or get routed to sub-optimal DC
Centralized authentication for all users
FIPS-compliant, high-security, non-Windows device
BIG-IP tunnels secure access to desktops for PCoIP
Automatically route users to optimal DC
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Benefits to NetApp
• Provide more value to the customer:
– Increased business workflow
– More application capacity
– Flexibility to respond
– Application and business continuity
– Reduced operating costs
• Greater storage share per FlexPod:
– More applications require more storage
• Further reduce deployment times:
– Slide into existing application environments
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