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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.
Read the following documents for more information about F5's solutions for VMware
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
Solution Documents
- F5 and VMware Solutions Guide
- F5 and VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Solution Brief
- F5 and VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Solution Brief
Case Studies
Top News Articles
- F5 and VMware Solution Enables Cloud Connection for Live Application Mobility
- Realizing Data Center Efficiency with Virtualization and Dynamic Infrastructure
- VMware and F5 Networks: The Virtual Future is Here
Top White Papers
- Application Delivery and Load Balancing for VMware View Desktop Infrastructure
- Connecting to the Cloud with F5 BIG-IP Solutions and VMware VMotion | Audio
- Optimizing VMware View VDI Deployments with F5 | Audio
- Global Distributed Service in the Cloud with F5 and VMware | Audio
- 7 Virtualization Challenges: Building a Virtualization-Ready Application and Storage Networking Infrastructure
- VMware DRS: Why You Still Need Assured Application Delivery and Application Delivery Networking
- How to Optimize Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Deployments with F5 BIG-IP
- The VDC Maturity Model - Moving up the virtual data center stack
- Virtual data center maturity model explained
- F5 and the 8 ways to Virtualization | Audio
- Virtualization Defined - Eight Different Ways
Latest Web Media
- F5 Live App Migration Between Clouds Demo
- Ziff Davis Webinar: "Learn How to Virtualize Mission-Critical Applications with VMware & F5"
- Joint F5/VMware Webinar: "How to Virtualize Your Mission-Critical Applications"
- Ask an F5 virtualization expert: VMware VDS & Application Traffic Management
- Demo: F5 and VMware virtualization
- VMworld 2008 demo of VMware AppSpeed and F5 Global Traffic Manager for cloud computing
- Podcast: Virtualization Demystified: Breaking out Virtualization Technologies
- The future of the desktop
VMware and BIG-IP LTM Configuration Diagram
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.
