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Infrastructure Virtualization Solutions

Bring services together to work as one complete virtual data center

Virtualization is quickly becoming the most disruptive infrastructure technology in years, causing enterprises to rethink and rebuild their data centers from the ground up. Many virtualization technologies are available to solve any number of problems, but none of these solutions look at the data center as a single entity.

F5 brings these technologies together--including hardware, operating system, and network virtualization--to create a complete virtual data center. Our solutions have been designed to work together to deliver applications to users virtually, helping achieve the many benefits of a shared, virtual data center--including lower hardware costs, better availability, and easier maintenance.

Why do I need infrastructure virtualization?

Business benefits of using F5 with your infrastructure virtualization solution include:

  • Reduction of hardware acquisition costs.
    With F5 solutions, you need less hardware--or less expensive hardware--to do the same work.
  • 99.999% availability.
    Our infrastructure virtualization solutions let you bring down one server without affecting the others.
  • The ability to bring down an entire data center for maintenance.For redundant data centers managed by an intelligent DNS system, you can bring down one data center for maintenance without affecting the other data centers or impacting users.

How do I implement infrastructure virtualization?

Infrastructure virtualization typically starts with a ground-up approach, by replacing key infrastructure elements with devices that can be virtually managed and distributed. F5 makes implementing our devices with infrastructure virtualization solutions extremely easy with our comprehensive deployment guides that provide guidance and detailed instructions on how to configure F5 products for leading virtualization platforms.

Resources

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 a infrastructure virtualization solution?

F5 products can efficiently deliver end-to-end application security, performance, and availability. We enable organizations to realize the benefits of virtualization by giving them the necessary building blocks to support virtualization in the infrastructure.

Resources

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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