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Load Balancing in the GoGrid CloudUtilizing F5 BIG IP to Manage

Traffic Spikes and Uptime

Cloud Implementation ExpertsF5 Networks: Doug Lohf, Senior Systems EngineerGoGrid: Rob Larson, Product ManagerGoGrid: David Michael, Sales Engineer

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Agenda

Overview• GoGrid • F5 Networks

Load Balancing with GoGrid and F5 BIG IP®

• Benefits of load balancing overview• Use cases• Best practices

Q&A Session

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Complex Infrastructure Made Easy™

Infrastructure management tools

• Web-based UI & API• Multiple data centers• Virtual & physical• No vendor lock-in• Standards based

Scale as your business grows

• Automation• Self service• F5 hardware load balancing• Global CDN• Cloud Storage

Flexible payment options and terms

• No long-term commitment

• Pay-as-you-go• Usage-based discounts• Net-30 terms

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Load Balancing in the GoGrid Cloud

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Benefits of Load Balancing

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Benefits of Load Balancing

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GoGrid Standard 6 Free F5 Load Balancers in GoGrid Data Centers

Load Balancer Type Options• Round Robin• Least Connect

Persistence Options• None will cause selected algorithm to determine routing• SSL Sticky• Source Address

Each GoGrid account includes three Virtual IP (VIP) addresses per data centers. A VIP is the IP address the F5 load balancer uses to direct traffic to servers

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GoGrid Standard Use Cases

Use Cases• Manage Traffic Spikes and Rapid Scaling• Application Uptime

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Cloud Connect

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Value Innovation• Unique TMOS architecture• Industry’s only open iControl API & SDK • Powerful iRules and DevCentral Community • Numerous Industry Patents

• Unique F5 and application vendor integration • Application partner tested and documented solutions• F5 solutions in partner labs• Cooperative Support Agreements

• Over 16,000 Customers• FY09 Revenue: $653 M • #1 in Advanced Platform ADC Market – Gartner• SSL VPN Market Leadership Award – Frost & Sullivan

F5 Ranked Among the Fastest Growing Technology Companies in North America

Proven Results

Application Partnerships

F5 Networks

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Customer Problem: Monitoring Availability is Too Costly

Availability: The Healthcheck Challenge

Failure at minute 2

Market Pervasiveness

• Monitoring consumes up to 10% of our traffic F500 Financial

• 76% of the customers would leave the website on seeing a broken link Gomez

• Internet surfers will wait no more than 20 seconds to see content Gartner

@ 3000 cps

Monitor every 5 Minutes

Approx 1000cps

• Web server generates 404 codes for any product errors • The “Monitoring Gap” - 5 Minute intervals are problematic• Can’t scale monitoring to support 35 sites with millions of pages

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Business Benefit:The F5 Solution: Error Code Handling

Ensure Higher Availability

Failure at minute 2

Server Errors

404

• TM/OS and Response Error Handling – Bi-directional control allows for server side events. Program any action based on the customized error conditions

• Ability to fallback to another server based on a server error• Guarantees

uninterrupted service for content

• Increases traffic manager capacity by 10%- 30%

• No impact on the network or applications

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GoGrid Custom Solutions Best Practices

Reach out to your GoGrid Technical Account Manager

Growth plan for next 6 months, 1 year, 18 months, 2 years

Have an idea of your application’s requirements • Bandwidth• Application topology – Diagram to share helpful• Size of a typical front-end transaction (between GG infrastructure and end-user)• Security requirements

Build a MyGSI with your servers’ application stacks pre-installed• Allows rapid spin-up of new servers and recover if servers should go down

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Summary

• Enhance or introduce load balancing to your infrastructure topology• GoGrid enables companies of all sizes to easily deploy F5 via the UI or API • Best practices – collaborate with us to build your customized infrastructure in the cloud• Ready to get started?

• Call GoGrid Account Manager today• US & Canada: 1.877.946.4743

Worldwide: +1.415.869.7444

• Check your inbox tomorrow for details on how to activate your $50 credit.

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Maria GallegosProduct Marketing Coordinatormaria@gogrid.com

Doug LohfSenior Systems Engineerd.lohf@f5.com

David MichaelSales EngineerDmichael@gogrid.com

Rob LarsonProduct Managerrlarson@gogrid.com

Questions?

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