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VMWARE AVI LOAD BALANCER INTRODUCES NEW INNOVATIONS TO FURTHER ACCELERATE
APPLICATION DEPLOYMENTS

Prashant Gandhi
May 22, 2024

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> New Capabilities Enable Self-Service Load Balancing, Expand Container Ingress
> Use Cases, Enhance Mobile/5G Support, and Automate Conversion from Legacy Load
> Balancers to Avi

Avi Load Balancer is the industry’s first software-defined load balancer (LB)
for hybrid clouds that delivers a distributed architecture with built-in
automation and deep application visibility. Avi’s pioneering innovations have
enabled IT teams to deliver load balancing at the speed of applications while
ensuring elasticity (scale-out and scale-up) and a consistent operating model
across hybrid multi-cloud environments, including VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF),
traditional data centers as well as native public clouds for virtualized,
Kubernetes and bare metal workloads. Our recent vision blog also highlights this
unified load balancing approach with a “single SKU” Avi offering for all
features and capabilities.

Avi Load Balancer is redefining the innovations bar across the following
dimensions:

 * VCF Private Cloud Applications: Avi is the load balancer of choice due to its
   plug-and-play operating model for VCF, delivering the following unique
   advantages.
   * Rapid LB deployment due to built-in integrations with vSphere and NSX
   * Automated LB workflow with Aria Operations, formerly vRealize Operations
     (vROPs)
   * LB self-service through integration with Aria Automation, formerly vRealize
     Automation (vRA) – new
   * Application visibility extended to VCF admins to rapidly troubleshoot
     application related issues before involving the load balancing team
 * Kubernetes Applications: As an ingress LB, Avi’s software defined and elastic
   architecture is ideally suited for the distributed and dynamic nature of
   container workloads. Avi’s advantages include
   * Built-in automation with Avi Kubernetes Operator (AKO)
   * Gateway API is a next gen Kubernetes ingress, significantly reducing the
     need for customizations via annotations and custom resource definitions
     (CRDs), and also future proofs customers for Kubernetes and serverless
     workloads – new 
   * Built-in ingress security – including Web Application Firewall (WAF) – to
     protect container workloads. No additional feature license required.
 * Mobile and 5G Applications: Avi delivers a flexible and consistent load
   balancing solution for a broad set of telecom and mobile use cases.
   * Natively multi-tenant, now delivering ~3X higher multi-tenancy with VCF and
     Telco Cloud Platforms (TCP) – new
   * Full support for recently shipping TCP 4.0 – new
   * Further enhancements to industry’s first software-defined IPv6 load
     balancer (with decoupled IPv6 control and distributed data planes) for
     on-prem and cloud – new
 * Legacy LB to Avi Conversion Tool – new: To simplify and speed-up Avi
   deployments in brownfield environments, we are announcing the Avi Conversion
   Tool. The tool:
   * discovers legacy LBs
   * extract configurations
   * converts legacy LB configurations and custom rules (e.g. iRules) to Avi
   * deploys configurations on Avi

This tool will accelerate legacy-to-Avi migrations delivered by our professional
services team.


SELF-SERVICE LOAD BALANCING FOR VCF PRIVATE CLOUD

Avi Load Balancer is the load balancer of choice for VCF, fully integrated and
supported with plug-and-play ease of use. Avi provides unprecedented application
visibility to help a VCF admin rapidly troubleshoot and root cause application
performance issues within minutes. Customers who want to enable self-service
capabilities to DevOps teams find legacy load balancers unbearable as it takes
weeks to provision, requiring many manual steps and multiple tickets. Avi’s
integration with Aria Automation offers application teams self-service access to
L4-L7 load balancing services (see blog: Enabling Load Balancing as a Service
for VCF-based Private Cloud). This enables application and infrastructure teams
to immediately deploy load balancing at the time of application provisioning,
with minimal know-how of load balancing technology or the need to create manual
tickets. The integration helps customers lower operational cost, simplify and
automate the provisioning and capacity management of load balancing. Watch this
short demo video to see how easy it is to enable load balancing as a service
using Aria Automation.

Boost Avi Load Balancer Multi-tenancy by ~3X 
Enterprises are deploying large-scale applications that require elastic and
resilient load balancing. Multiple teams and tenants need to have access to the
private cloud infrastructure. Avi Load Balancer has made significant
improvements on performance and scale, boosting multi-tenancy support by nearly
3X. Customers can now manage more Avi Service Engines (load balancers) for every
Avi Controller deployed. Each controller can support up to 800 Tier-1 routers
for VMware NSX-T Cloud. Customers not only have fewer controllers to manage, but
save significant operational costs compared to legacy load balancers. As a
result, the same team can manage more tenants, so productivity is enhanced.
VMware Cloud Service Providers, formerly VMware Cloud Provider Program (VCPP),
leverage Avi Load Balancer to streamline cloud operations and elevate service
offerings. See details in this Feature Friday YouTube webinar.


AVI FOR INGRESS LOAD BALANCING OF KUBERNETES AND SERVERLESS WORKLOADS 

Containers are ephemeral and elastic in nature, spinning up and down all the
time, outdating hardware load balancers with legacy architectures designed
before cloud and containers. Increasingly, production workloads are deployed on
Kubernetes platforms, making open-source options not viable for enterprise
requirements. To keep pace with the speed of application deployment and deliver
enterprise-grade load balancing and ingress solutions, Avi Load Balancer offers
the ideal architecture for container workloads with built-in ingress security.

Avi offers integrated ingress services which include ingress controller, load
balancing, multi-cluster global server load balancing (GSLB), WAF, application
analytics in a single platform. For customers who have deployed Avi for their
virtualized workloads, it’s an easy extension onto the Kubernetes workloads with
the same user interface, consistent workflows and policies. Avi is agnostic to
container platforms and supports VMware Tanzu, RedHat OpenShift, Tanzu
Application Service (TAS, previously Pivotal Cloud Foundry) and more.
Avi Load Balancer is introducing general availability (GA) support for Gateway
API in the AKO 1.12.1 release. Avi adds advanced L7 routing functionalities
including serverless Kubernetes support, header modification, cookie insertion,
and a key set of HTTProute functionalities. Avi offers advanced traffic routing,
better scale and observability on a per route basis, without the need for
CustomResourceDefinition (CRDs) or annotations.




EXTENDING SOFTWARE-DEFINED APPROACH TO MOBILE AND 5G APPLICATIONS

With the distributed IPv6 support enabled by Avi’s unique software-defined
architecture and Telco Cloud Platform 4.0 support, VMware Avi Load Balancer
continues to offer a broad set of use cases from 4G VM workloads and Virtual
Network Functions (VNFs) to 5G container workloads and container network
functions (CNFs). A large telco customer first deployed Avi in their corporate
IT network for its cloud-like experience. Impressed by its ease of use and
application analytics, the network team introduced Avi to its core telco team,
who decided to extend Avi into the Telco Cloud Platform that enables 5G network
for Kubernetes workloads. From an operations perspective, it’s exactly the same
platform for both environments, making it extremely easy to train staff and
collaborate on resolving application issues that can involve multiple teams.
Multi-tenancy has been a key requirement for telco use cases and the scale has
been greatly enhanced with the release. Avi provides granular rule-based access
control (RBAC) to different tenants and teams.


LEGACY LOAD BALANCER TO AVI CONVERSION TOOL

To further make it easier to migrate off legacy load balancer hardware
appliances and accelerate the journey onto VCF private cloud, Avi Load Balancer
is announcing the initial availability (IA) of an UI-based conversion tool that
takes legacy policy rules, converts configurations into built-in Avi features as
well as into Avi DataScript (a Lua-based scripting language). Customers break
the chain off legacy load balancers, from convoluted box-by-box configurations
to simple policy management from a centralized dashboard.


LEARN MORE

 * VMware Avi Load Balancer 30.2.1 Release Note
 * Avi Kubernetes Operator (AKO) 1.12.1 Release Note
 * Enabling Load Balancing as a Service for VCF-based Private Cloud
 * Come and talk to Avi experts at VMware Explore Las Vegas (Aug 26-29, 2024)
   and VMware Explore Barcelona (Nov 4-7, 2024)

PRASHANT GANDHI

Prashant Gandhi leads Products and Services in Application Networking and
Security (ANS) Division at Broadcom, responsible for VMware vDefend Lateral
Security and Avi Load Balancer product management, product marketing and…


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