An introduction to the partnership between Riverbed and VMware and a summary of the Riverbed announcements at VMworld 2012

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Performance for Your VMware environment:
View, vCloud, vFabric & VXLAN

7. VXLAN Challenge – Loss of Network Visibility & Control
UDP Tunnel • Total loss of visibility of overlay
network – all traffic is now UDP
tunneled
• Virtualization layer controls all tunnel
and overlay network setup/tear down
• Impossible to isolate overlay traffic
from physical network
• Different overlay networks can have
overlapping address spaces
How to troubleshoot and monitor network performance?

8. Riverbed Cascade: Comprehensive, Intelligent, Actionable
The Total Performance Picture
• Spotlight current pain points
• Identify potential areas for improvement
• Understand application dependencies
• Accelerate troubleshooting
Monitor
Application-aware Network
Performance Management
Troubleshoot  Passive flow and packet collection for end-to-end visibility
 Application-centric performance views for business-relevance
 Automated performance analysis for early identification of issues
 Application decodes and transactions for faster diagnosis
 Dependency mapping of infrastructure and application relationships
Discover

10. Riverbed vCloud Integration Benefits
Standardized deployment
• Simplified implementation for any Cloud using vCloud
• Deploy all virtual services the same way
• Enable self-service IaaS offerings
• Subscription Licensing
Complete Automation
• Imports Riverbed Services into your Cloud Portfolio
• Deploys new instances of Cloud Steelhead
• Creates optimized vApp Solutions based on your needs
• Re-directs traffic for optimization

11. Stingray + vFabric Application Director
Application Acceleration & Performance
• Software: Designed from the ground up for virtualization
• L7 ADC – Built for application integration
• Designed for multi-tier high performance applications
• Subscription Licensing for Cloud Operators
Automated Application Provisioning
• Simple and Automated Application Provisioning
• Cloud-Ready Provisioning
• Standardized Use of Application Components and Middleware

12. Stingray + vFabric Application Director
Integration Benefits
• Provision and scale multi-tier applications faster and smarter in a
hybrid cloud environment
• Higher level of application portability across cloud services
• High-performance virtual ADC to accelerate application
performance and load web pages up to 4x faster
• Rapid and repeatable deployments using out-of-the-box
application blueprints