BIG-IQ CLOUD: DELIVERING APPLICATION NETWORK SERVICES FOR PRIVATE, PUBLIC AND HYBRID CLOUDS

Stathis PapaefstathiouVice President, Product DevelopmentApril 3rd , 2013

Cloud in 3 bullet points

DECOUPLE APPLICATION FROM INFRASTRUCTURE

ORCHESTRATION AND AUTOMATION

SELF-SERVICE

SERVERS L2/3NETWORK

L4/7NETWORK

10 mins

Provision VM

1-2 weeks

Request Infrastructure Services. Back and Forth

Definition/Clarification

1-2 weeks

Sit in IT Queue

2-4 hrs

Infrastructure Services Configured

Provisioning and Deployment Timelines

Application Delivery Networks

• Glue between end users and application workloads

• Policy-driven traffic management

• Dynamic configuration and automation of policies

L4-L7

4 Key Functions of Application Delivery Networking

LocalScaling

Securing

GlobalScaling

Accelerating

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DECOUPLE APPLICATION FROM INFRASTRUCTURE

Infrastructure Application

F5 Service Templates iApp• iApps drive automation and provisioning

• App-centric templates encapsulating best practice, tested configurations of ADN services

• iApp templates allow for business policy-driven configuration and IT collaboration

• Changes can quickly be made and re-applied

• Portable between F5 devices, enabling rapid migration

• Every service is reusable

Full Suite of F5 BIG-IP Application Services are Included

• Availability• Performance• Security• Optimization• Acceleration

Shared Management Plane

vCenter

vCloud Director

vShield Manager

F5 Enterprise Manager

Infrastructure Policy

Datacenter & Security Policy

Application Delivery Policy

IT Infrastructure Application Owner

ORCHESTRATION AND AUTOMATION

SELF-SERVICE

1. Provider: owns physical infrastructure to create clouds; defines and assigns logical partitions to consumers

2. Consumer: (tenant, orgs, app owner); deploys applications into their “slice” of the cloud

3. Services: compute, memory, storage, L2/3 network, L4/7 app delivery network, IPAM, security, etc.

WEB

Provider

WEB*

WEB**

WEB***

Tenant

WEB***

Catalog Tenant DeployApplications

F5 BIG-IQ: Next-Gen Centralized ManagementModular Framework

BIG-IQ PlatformMulti Device Management

SECURITY(firewall)

CLOUD FutureModules

…

F5 Networks Confidential

REST / JSONREST / JSON

Big-IQ Cloud Components

BIG-IQ Cloud

Northbound API

Southbound API

Eastbound

AP

I

Third-party Orchestration

integration(i.e., Vmware)

“Roll your own” orchestration integration

Public CloudProviders

. . .

REST API

iControl

Service-provider API

BIG-IQ Cloud GUI

BIG-IQ CLOUD DEMOAutomatic DeploymentCloud Bursting

Use Case

ServiceProvider defines

application template from

Catalog

User selects and configure

application in vCloud

Automatic Deployment of

Web Application including ADC

AD

CD

eplo

ymen

t

ConfigurePublic CloudConnection

ConfigureCloud Burst

Service

ADN Services Manage Cloud

Bursting

Clo

udB

urst

ing

10 mins

Provision VM

1-2 weeks

Request Infrastructure Services. Back and Forth

Definition/Clarification

1-2 weeks

Sit in IT Queue

2-4 hrs

Infrastructure Services Configured

Provisioning and Deployment Timelines

10 mins

Provision VM

10 mins

Select Correct Infrastructure Policy from Catalog

Auto-Configure Infrastructure Services

5 mins

IT Pre-Defines Catalog of Infrastructure Services

Time-to-production for all the necessaryinfrastructure services from weeks to minutes

Hybrid Clouds Made Easy

• Turn-key cloud bridging

• Auto-discovery of public cloud resources

• Configuration of ADN infrastructure for hybrid clouds

• Support for multi-tier applications running on different clouds

• Seamless cloud bursting and balancing of resources between clouds

BIG-IQ Cloud Capabilities

• iApp Lifecycle Management

• Provider and Tenant Self-Service Portal

• Cloud Connectors• Orchestrator adapters (e.g. vCloud)• Public cloud connectors (e.g. Amazon)

• Cloud Bridging

• Cloud Bursting

• Service Health and Performance Monitoring

Amazon AWSCitrix XenServerHyper-VKVMVMware

BIG-IP Virtual EditionFlexible expansion

Unmatched flexibility across all major virtualization platforms.

Private Public Performance

3Gbps

SERVERS L2/3NETWORK

L4/7NETWORK

Welcome ADN Services to Cloud

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