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VMware Virtualization Solutions

VMware is a market leader in virtualization solutions, providing a robust suite of advanced virtualization solutions, from client to server to storage. Advanced capabilities like VMotion, DRS and SRM enable organizations to accomplish previously difficult IT operations with much greater ease.

All of these features require a robust and flexible network to operate effectively. The partnership between VMware and F5 is designed to ensure that your network is ready to support these advanced features, and enables F5 to leverage VMware APIs and SDKs to integrate the two lines of products. F5 enables you to maximize the value gained from all of your virtualization initiatives, thereby reducing costs, improving flexibility and increasing performance.

Why do I need F5 for VMware solutions?

VMware's advanced server virtualization features rely on the ability to move virtual machines fluidly between hosts and data centers without impacting performance. In addition, VMware's advanced desktop virtualization features rely on the ability to serve up a desktop remotely while maintaining the user experience. Both of these fundamental value propositions assume a network that is intelligent, flexible and powerful enough to support and adapt. F5 enables your organization to maximize the benefits gained from server and desktop virtualization, without the network headaches.

Benefits of deploying F5 solutions with VMware

  • Ensure your network supports VMware features - F5 enables your network to handle the virtual machine mobility and flexibility presented by VMware
  • Improve business continuity - F5 optimizes your application traffic across multiple virtualized data centers for improved failover and performance
  • Increase ROI - F5 technology can drastically improve server capacity for virtual machines
  • Virtual Desktops - F5 acceleration, optimization and load balancing technology maximizes performance and user experience for VMware VDI or View deployments
  • Application Performance - F5 traffic management solutions ensure that the traffic to your virtualized applications is fully optimized for high performance, availability and security

VMware and BIG-IP LTM Configuration Diagram

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How do I deploy F5 with VMware solutions?

F5 Networks has taken the trial and error out of deploying our solutions with VMware virtualization solutions, such as ESX, vCenter and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), with comprehensive guides providing step by step instructions. F5 engineers have also created deployment guides for leading applications hosted on VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3. Already up and running? F5's developer community DevCentral has a section dedicated to VMware solutions where you can find forums, tips and much more.

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DevCentral Community

F5 Devcentral, is our community driven site that helps customers and partners maximize the effectiveness of F5 technologies & solutions.

F5 Knowledge Base

The AskF5 Knowledge Base has product manuals, security advisories, and release notes on F5 products.

What F5 offerings do I need for VMware solutions?

F5's entire portfolio of products works together to ensure your VMware deployment is always optimized, efficient, secure, fast, and available.

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F5 Technology Demo

This animated demo shows the F5 application delivery networking technologies working in different scenarios.

BIG-IP Overview Demo

This in-depth Flash demo gives a video introduction, overview, and next steps for using BIG-IP.

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