Application Delivery & Server Load Balancing: Core benefits and future trends with IPv6 & Cloud Computing/Virtualization

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Application Delivery: Core benefits, IPv6 & Virtualisation

Paul NicholsonDirector of Product Marketing

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Agenda

Who is A10?

Application Delivery & Server Load Balancing

Core Application Delivery Features

IPv6 Migration

Cloud Computing/Virtualisation

Summary & Conclusion

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Who is A10?

Corporate Vision:

Founder:

A10 Expertise:

Headquarters:

To be the technology leader in Web Application Delivery solutions

Lee Chen, co-founder of Foundry Networks

and Centillion Networks

Networking, Applications and Security

San Jose, California. Local offices worldwide.

200 employees

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AX Series Sample Customers

Florence County

A10 Confidential and Subject To Change

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AX Series: Core Application Delivery

Application Delivery

Controller

Server Load Balancer

Global Server Load Balancer

Large Scale NAT

Dual-Stack Lite

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Application Delivery and Load Balancing

Users• Site Always Available

• Faster Response

Primary Datacenter

External

Network

• High Volume Traffic

& Unpredictable Spikes

• Disparate Devices &

Protocols

ADC• Application Delivery

Controller

Internal Network

Servers

• Efficient Distribution

• Reduced Connections

• Normalized Traffic

• CPU & Network Off-load

• Easier Management

• Connection Efficiency

•Automatic

Failover

• Datacenter

Redundancy &

Disaster

Recovery

Backup

Datacenter

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Users

Cloud

Data Center

Vital InfrastructureFor cloud & hypervisors

Reduce cost &

complexity

EvolutionLoad balancer

ADC

Advanced ADC

Application Entry Point

Scalability

Availability

Security

What are Application Delivery Controllers?

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Server (and Network) Optimisation

Acceleration & off-load technologies

Off-load compute intensive tasks

TCP Optimisation

SSL Off-load

RAM Caching

Compression off-load

SSL off-load

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Server (and Network) Optimisation

Acceleration & off-load technologies

Off-load compute intensive tasks

TCP Optimisation

SSL Off-load

RAM Caching

Compression off-load

RAM Content Caching

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Compression

Server (and Network) Optimisation

Acceleration & off-load technologies

Off-load compute intensive tasks

TCP Optimisation

SSL Off-load

RAM Caching

Compression off-load

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AX Series: Application Delivery Controller

Platform: Advanced Features & High Performance

Leverage multiple Layer 4-7 features without performance degradation

• 64-bit ACOS

• Multi-core CPU System

• Global Server Load

Balancing

• TCP Optimisation

• Secure Email

• IPv4/IPv6

• Layer 7 Scripting

• DNS Application Firewall

• SIP Load

Balancing

• Hardware SSL

Acceleration

• Spam Filter

(PBSLB)

• Line Rate DDoS

Security

• High Availability

• Caching &

Compression

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Advanced Core OS (ACOS)

Development started in June 2005

Multi-core CPU, shared memory architecture No Inter-process Communication (IPC)

Efficient design Power, memory, space & resource consumption

Scalable Symmetrical Multi-processing (SSMP) Same architecture scales to 100+ Gbps

Current products from 4 Gbps to 40 Gbps

aVCS: increase performance times X devices

Flexible design Supports architectures with or without hardware assist

Little hardware dependency, can be ported to other target processors (e.g. hypervisors)

64-bit or 32-bit ACOS products shipping today

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AX Series Hardware & ACOS Performance

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AX Series Hardware & ACOS Performance

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Proof Points

Max power consumption less than 680 Watts

Superior performance

per Watt – over 10x

Dramatic savings per

transaction – 80%

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Capacity Planning

Concerns

Regular load

Peak loads

Growth

Monetize metrics

$ per Gb throughput

$ per connection per second

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AX Series: IPv6 Migration

Application Delivery

Controller

Server Load Balancer

Global Server Load Balancer

Large Scale NAT

Dual-Stack Lite

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Carrier & ISP Challenges

IPv6 Migration: Demand for IP addresses rapidly increasing

However, IPv4 addresses = very short supply

Tight control on new allocations

Projected to run out by 2011/12

New users coming online

Smartphones

Gaming devices (Xbox/PlayStation/Wii/DS)

Many other network-aware devices (e.g. DVRs)

Good situation to have ~ ISPs want to

continue to increase customer base and grow

their business

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IPv4 Address Shortage Gaining Momentum

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IPv6 Migration & IPv4 <-> IPv6

IPv6

Adoption underway

IPv4-only nodes and content will still be around

Large Scale NAT

Sharing of “public” IPv4 addresses among multiple customers

Dual-Stack Lite

Supports both native IPv6 and traditional IPv4 concurrently

Solutions

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LSN on IPv4 Networks and Pure IPv6 Networks Relieve IPv4 Address Shortages

• Two separate

options/networks

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The AX Series DS-Lite Solution Enables IPv6 Deployment

• The AX Series

communicates with

the service

provider IPv6 and

the IPv4 networks

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Industry-leading Implementations

Working closely with large ISPs worldwide

Solution evaluated and tested in ISP labs

Proven interoperability with DS-Lite client implementations

Award winning implementation

LSN deployed in Tokyo Interop 2009 & 2010

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AX Series Offers the Ideal Platform

Flexible high performance hardware & software platforms

Scalable

High session establishment rate

Large number of concurrent sessions

Very high NAT processing (packets per second) & throughput

Stateful high availability for robustness

Cost effective

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AX Series: Cloud Computing & Virtualization

Application Delivery

Controller

Server Load Balancer

Global Server Load Balancer

Large Scale NAT

Dual-Stack Lite

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Virtualisation Meeting Customer Requirements

Wide choice of virtualisation options

Private or Public Clouds

Scale as you grow

Operational Flexibility

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ADCs Solving Customer Issues

SaaS Solution

Collaboration in the cloud

L4-L7 Application Delivery

Removed traffic bottlenecks

Performance

County government

Optimise & accelerate VMware servers

Automated management with aXAPI

User reaction!

“What have you done to speed up the Website? It is incredibly fast now.”

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Virtualisation Benefits

CAPEX & OPEX reduction

Flexibility & portability

Shared platforms

Single shared application

Multiple applications

Elastic infrastructure

Vertical & horizontal scaling

SoftADC

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Cloud Computing Versus Traditional Infrastructure

Vast corporate datacenters

Long deployment cycle for applications

Static infrastructure

Armies of IT personnel

Expensive to run

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Moving Data Center Applications to the Cloud

Reduce costs

Increase service

Free staff to focus on business needs, not maintenance

More business focus

Cloud

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Cloud Computing & Virtualisation Concepts

“In the cloud” versus the corporate datacenter

Pay per use infrastructure

Multi-tenancy

Commodity or appliance hardware

Elasticity

Automation

Scale on demand

“Everything as a service” trend

Virtualisation as an

enabler

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ADC Virtualisation Overview

SoftADC

SoftADC appliance

ADC internal virtualisation

3rd party integration & solutions

aVCS – Virtual Chassis

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SoftAX (Virtual Appliance or SoftADC)

Based on Advanced Core Operating System (ACOS)

Leverage inexpensive commodity hardware

Scale-on-demand & portable

Full range of Layer 4-7 software features

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Software ADC Limitations

Performance

Hardware dependent

Hypervisor overhead

Resource contention

Hardware not designed for ADCs

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Software ADC Usage Examples

Hardware appliances for performance

SoftADC for flexibility

Early stage applications

On-demand ADC

Test environments

Rapid deployment

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SoftADC Appliance

VM flexibility, appliance reliability

Hardware & software HA

“Bare metal” hypervisor

Support, compliance and performance

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SoftADC Appliance

Hypervisor assigns hardware resources per ADC VM

Custom ADC hardware advantages

Including port density, ASIC & RPS

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ADC Virtualisation

ADC segmentation Only see the allocated

resources

Application Delivery Partitions (ADPs)

Cost effective Serve multiple applications

Less hardware

Multi-tenancy

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Cloud Computing & Virtualisation

Scale up as traffic increases

Scale down as traffic decreases

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Dynamic Datacenter Provisioning

• Infrastructure

reacts to demand

for “elasticity”

• vCenter changes

AX Series

configuration

• Triggered by

serverCPU utilisation

Memory usage

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A10 Application Delivery Offerings

Flexible Advanced ADC choice

Hardware and/or software

Internal AX appliance virtualisation

Comprehensive 3rd party integration

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A10 Approach to Customer Engagement

Discuss customers needs

The ADC is essential for VM deployment

Scripting (aXAPI) powers flexibility

Hosting provider applications

Enterprises deploying private clouds

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AX Series: Recap

Application Delivery

Controller

Server Load Balancer

Global Server Load Balancer

Large Scale NAT

Dual-Stack Lite

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Summary

Application Delivery

Capacity for peak loads & consolidation

Server (and network) optimisation are key

IPv6 migration technologies

Ensure Internet growth despite IPv4 shortage

Virtualisation

Provides cost effective flexibility

Many approaches

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