4. 4
Common Virtualization Drivers & Barriers
• Performance
• Availability
• Management
• Integration
• Cost Savings
• IT Agility / Speed
• IT Efficiency
IMPACT
to the
Business
Drivers
CIO Objectives
Barriers
Real World Challenges
5. 5
Common Virtualization Drivers & Barriers
• Performance
• Availability
• Management
• Integration
Risks
• Missed ROI/Savings
• Missed Agility/Speed
• SLA impact
• Over Budget
• Cost Savings
• IT Agility / Speed
• IT Efficiency
IMPACT
to the
Business
Drivers
CIO Objectives
Barriers
Real World Challenges
6. 6
Customer Request – the perfect storm
Facing unpredictable
application demand
Desire to keep CapEx / OpEx low
(servers, power, rent)
App SLA’s must
be maintained
Want to leverage the
cloud – but carefully
7. 7
Common Practical Issues
• How can I provision more seamlessly?
• How can I make application performance better?
• How can I automate more administrative tasks?
• How can I simplify network configuration for VMs?
• How can I take full advantage of VMotion?
• How can I secure my virtual desktop deployments?
• How can I streamline virtual desktop access steps?
• How can I simplify management?
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Automating Network Changes: vCenter
• BIG-IP LTM & VMware vCenter can be integrated for
automatic provisioning of local VMs on demand
• Respond to changes in traffic volume
• Provision to mean rather than peak
• Reduce manual labor
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Live Application Migration
Long Distance vMotion
• Migration
• Disaster avoidance
• Capacity expansion
Key Customer Benefits
• Local Traffic Control
• Global Traffic Control
• Acceleration
• Orchestration
Use Cases for Well Established Functionality
12. 12
Hybrid Cloud Architecture with vCloud Director
• Cloud Bursting
• Serving an application across
multiple data centers
• Automated Failover
• Global Traffic Optimization
• Intelligent Persistence
• Federated Cloud Authentication
• Control via
– iControl API
– Pre-defined global traffic policies
– iRules
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VMware-Ready Certified Appliances
• LTM-VE tested & approved
• FirePass-VE tested & approved
• The VMware Ready logo is assigned to partner hardware and software
products that have passed VMware specified testing and/or met criteria
outlined by VMware. VMware provides qualification tests for third-party
hardware and software that operate with VMware solutions in customer
environments. http://www.vmware.com/partners/vmware-ready/
15. 15
“33% of organizations plan to deploy
hosted virtual desktops in 2010”
Gartner April 2010
"By 2012, 20% of businesses will own no
IT assets… driving the movement …
virtualization, cloud-enabled services.”
Gartner Highlights Key Predictions for IT Organizations and
Users in 2010 and Beyond,
Press Release, Gartner, January 13, 2010
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Common Desktop Virtualization Challenges
• User Experience
– Performance over the Wide Area Network
– Access methods / complexity
– Login steps / annoyance
• Security
– Encryption of all WAN traffic
– Unified Access (Local vs. Remote, Desktop vs. Smart Phone)
– Integration with existing authentication infrastructure
– Endpoint integrity inspection
• Scalability/Availability
– Scaling VDM servers without more power or rackspace
– Ensuring total availability of connection brokers
17. 17
WAN
Connection ServersConnection Servers
BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager
BIG-IP Edge Gateway
BIG-IP Edge Gateway
Remote Office Clients
Remote Clients
Local LAN Clients
Local Mode Desktop
Local Mode Desktop
Primary Site
Centralized Virtual
Desktops
Remote Office
Internet
Encryption (DTLS or SSL)
Unencrypted RDP or Natively Encrypted PCoIP)
Desktop Virtualization Architecture
20. 20
Ongoing Logins!
At Home
(wireless)
On the way to work
(Aircard)
In the office
(docked LAN connection)
Presenting
(corporate wireless)
Constantly Re-connecting
In the Cafe
(wireless)
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Simplify Restarts:
21. 21
Simplify Restarts: Reconnect Automatically
Auto-Connect!
At Home
(wireless)
On the way to work
(Aircard)
In the office
(docked LAN connection)
Presenting
(corporate wireless)
Always Connected Application Access
In the Cafe
(wireless)
22. 22
Accelerate Connection Restarts
1
2
App Info
JSessionID
Etc.
Source IP
Send the user to his existing desktop session – much faster restarts
Proxy/NAT
Edge Gateway
Persistence to Desktop
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Unify Access to the Data Center
DMZ
Use existing user directories
View Servers
BIG-IP Edge Gateway
• One solution to manage all access policies regardless of access
network
• Capacity and performance to secure all user traffic
• Optimizes application delivery to remote and mobile users
• Improves quality of real-time applications; soft phones and
streaming media
Mobile Users
Wireless Users
Internet
Branch Office Users
Internal LAN
VLAN2
LAN Users
Internal LAN
VLAN1
26. 26
Optimize Authentication & Authorization
Unified AAA Services for View
• Integration with existing authentication
mechanisms
– AD, LDAP, RADIUS, 2-Factor, Client Certs, Etc.
– Full support PKI infrastructures
• Check the device prior to logon
– OS, AV, firewall, process, file, registry,
client/machine certs, etc.
• Remediate if necessary, automatically
• Use protected workspaces when the device is not completely
trustworthy
• Enforce Group Policies on all assets (even non-corporate assets)
• Full FIPS compliant solution
27. 27
Maintain Native PCoIP Performance
Connection
Brokers
Mobile Users
Remote Users
Branch Office Users
LAN Users
DTLS Encryption
View
Servers
DTLS Encryption
SSL Encryption
PCoIP
PCoIP
RDP
DTLSEncryptionPCoIP
Support for DTLS (UDP) encryption
Support for SSL (TCP) encryption
Avoids the alternative method of
encapsulating UDP into TCP for SSL
encryption (thus degrading UDP).
29. 29
Enable Scalability by Offloading Processes
from View Manager Servers
1. Improve efficiency by offloading SSL
2. HA & load balancing for View Manager servers
30. 30
Bandwidth Reduction for RDP in View
LTM can also reduce
bandwidth consumption up to
12:1 using its WAN
Optimization Module
1. Compression
2. Deduplication
3. TCP Optimization
4. Encryption
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Overview
• Free Software Plug-In for VMware vSphere
• Attaches to vCenter Server – modifies vSphere Client GUI
• Operates with both physical and virtual LTM editions
• Officially supported by F5 (in it’s unmodified state)
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Resource Pools
Delivering IT as a Service with F5 solutions
Virtual Datacenters –
•Virtualized, shared pools of
server, storage, and network
resources
•Virtualized datacenter services
(firewall etc)
•Policy-driven Management
Standardized services and
service level definitions with
automated service delivery
Self-service user access with
metering, monitoring, and
chargeback
Virtual Datacenters Virtual Datacenters Virtual Datacenters
Increase VM density by offloading network
related processes to F5
Accelerating of VMotion and Storage VMotion
Achieve storage efficiency through F5 ARX
Storage Virtualization
F5 Integration with SRM for Global Traffic
Management
F5 Integration with vCloud Director for Cloud
Bursting
F5 enables Long Distance vMotion
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager Virtual Edition
F5 FirePass Virtual Edition
VDI : Single Sign-on and secure access
VDI : High performance PCoIP
