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

Summary: Cloud Flexibility On-demand

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

Thank YouThank You

Paul NicholsonSr. Product Marketing Manager

www.a10networks.com