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F5 and VMwaresolution overview
F5, vMware, and eMC offerings
· BIG-IP® Local Traffic Manager™
· BIG-IP® Global Traffic Manager™
· BIG-IP® WAN Optimization Manager™
· VMware vSphere 5
· VMware Metro vMotion
· VMware Storage vMotion
· EMC VPLEX Metro
Improved Mobility for Live Migration Events Across Metro Distances
The feasibility and reliability of migrating live virtual applications over long distances has been demonstrated by F5. However, a primary obstacle to broader adoption has been the challenges associated with moving large quantities of virtualized storage. Combining F5, VMware, and EMC solutions eliminates the requirement of migrating storage. Therefore, live migrations of virtual applications can now be performed for environments with large amounts of storage, where they had not been possible before.
Eliminating Storage Constrains
VMware vMotion enables users to move live virtual machines (VMs) from one server to another, including the possibility of moving VMs between local, metro, and remote data centers. This can serve a wide range of use cases, from simple one-time application migrations to capacity expansion or even disaster avoidance.
vMotion performance is sensitive to network latency and bandwidth, which historically prevented vMotion events over longer distances. Furthermore, the requirement of moving associated data using Storage vMotion added the challenge of moving large quantities of data across the WAN.
Combining F5, VMware, and EMC solutions eliminates the need to move storage data across the WAN, which results in reliable, secure, and faster live migrations over metro distances.
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BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager
Data Center 1Data Center 2
EMC VPLEX Metro
Ongoing active/active replication
VMs transfer from Data Center 1 to 22
User connection routing
iSessions’ secure, accelerated tunnel1
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BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager + WAN Optimization Manager
BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager + WAN Optimization Manager
© 2011 F5 Networks, Inc. All rights reserved. F5, F5 Networks, the F5 logo, BIG-IP, ARX, FirePass, iControl, iRules, TMOS, and VIPRION are registered trademarks of F5 Networks, Inc. in the U.S. and in certain other countries. CS22-00004 0811
Learn moreFor more information about F5,
VMware, and EMC VPLEX, use the
search function on f5.com
to find these resources.
Deployment guide
Deploying BIG-IP v10.2 to Enable
Long Distance Live Migration with
VMware vSphere Motion
DevCentral blog
Introducing Long Distance vMotion
with VMware
Faster Migrations, Longer Distances
VMware Metro vMotion and EMC VPLEX Metro enable live-state applications to be fully migrated to a remote data center without an elongated Storage vMotion. Metro vMotion decreases the sensitivity to network latency, supporting longer distances.
Also, EMC VPLEX Metro replicates virtualized storage across data centers, so the identical data is available in both data centers, thus eliminating the need for moving the data.
F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM) together with BIG-IP WAN Optimization Manager (WOM) help optimize, secure, and redirect user requests so that production is unaffected during the migration process.
To find out how F5, VMware, and EMC joint solutions can help your business, contact
[email protected] or visit the VMware solutions page.
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Architecture supporting live migration with F5, VMware, and EMC VPLEX Metro.
