Deliver Modern Applications with an Elastic Load Balancing Fabric Powered by Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
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This document discusses how applications are traditionally deployed using hardware load balancers versus a modern elastic load balancing fabric approach powered by Intel Xeon Scalable Processors and VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer. The traditional approach uses custom-built hardware in an active-standby configuration that results in static capacity, high costs, and complex operations. The modern approach provides a software-defined, centrally managed fabric with dynamic scaling, automated provisioning, lower TCO, and self-healing capabilities. It can deliver high performance on commodity servers through its purpose-built software stack and use of Intel crypto instructions.
Deliver Modern Applications with an Elastic Load Balancing Fabric Powered by Intel Xeon Scalable Processors
- 1. Confidential │ ©2020 VMware, Inc. Elastic Load Balancing Powered by Intel Xeon Scalable Processors VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (by Avi Networks) Rahul Phadke (VMware) Shweta Jain (Intel) 05/20/2020
- 2. Confidential │ ©2020 VMware, Inc. 22 How are applications deployed using legacy load balancers Active 15% Standby 0%
- 3. Confidential │ ©2020 VMware, Inc. 3 Custom built hardware Active-Standby pairs Independently managed Static capacity Very expensive Underutilization of capacity Wastage of power and datacenter space Complex operations Manually provision capacity for growth How are applications deployed – Hardware load balancers Challenges with legacy approach How are applications traditionally deployed What are the problems with this approach
- 4. Confidential │ ©2020 VMware, Inc. 4 Advantages of Intel hardware Intel’s powerful Xeon Scalable Processors are a key enabler for modern infrastructure Simplify datacenter design High end Compute and Network Highly cost efficient
- 5. Confidential │ ©2020 VMware, Inc. 5 Intel Networking Portfolio for Cloud Scale Intel® Architecture Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors Intel® Ethernet Network Adapters Intel® Trusted Execution Technology Intel® Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions Intel® QuickAssist Technology Intel® Data Plane Development Kit Intel® Hyperscan Intel® TXT Intel® AES-NI All Intel® product plans and roadmaps are subject to change without notice.
- 6. Confidential │ ©2020 VMware, Inc. 6 To Modern Distributed Architecture Centralized Policies and Full Lifecycle Management App Services Control Plane Data Plane Software Load Balancer Intelligent WAF Container Ingress Avi Controller Bare Metal Virtualized Containers ON PREMISES PUBLIC CLOUD SEPARATE CONTROL & DATA PLANE ELASTICITY Application Services Fabric MULTI-CLOUD ANALYTICS AUTOMATION
- 7. Confidential │ ©2020 VMware, Inc. 7 Consistent L4-L7 enterprise-grade app services across multi-cloud environments Avi Networks (now VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer) App Analytics / Insights Container Ingress Services DNS and IP Address Management (IPAM) Web Application Firewall (WAF) and App Security Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) Enterprise-grade Load Balancing NSX Horizon(VDI) vSphere/vCenter Deliver Any App on Any Cloud with One Platform VCF VMC Tanzu vRO/vRA
- 8. Confidential │ ©2020 VMware, Inc. 8 Simplify troubleshooting, eliminate TCP Dumps Analytics and App Insights Eliminate finger-pointing Troubleshoot app performance, security and end-user issues in minutes Bare Metal Virtualized Containers Avi Controller • Connection log analytics • Security insights: DDoS • App performance metrics • End user experience End-to-End Timing Total Response Time End User Client RTT Server RTT App Response Load Balancer Server App
- 9. Confidential │ ©2020 VMware, Inc. 9 Built-in ecosystem integration/cloud connectors Automation / Self-Service Bare Metal Virtualized Containers Avi Controller Operational Automation vRO/vRA Cisco CloudCenter Infrastructure Automation
- 10. Confidential │ ©2020 VMware, Inc. 10 Software defined - Fully orchestrated Active-Active design Centrally managed Dynamic capacity management Automated - Rapid provisioning 0 capacity wastage – Lower TCO Ease of life cycle management Self-healing elastic fabric How are applications deployed – Elastic load balancing fabric Benefits with the modern approach How does Intel + Avi Networks solve the problem
- 11. Confidential │ ©2020 VMware, Inc. 11 Going above and beyond - Powered by Intel Multi-Cloud Analytics and app insights Automation and self-service
- 12. Confidential │ ©2020 VMware, Inc. 12 Scale vertically with more CPUs or horizontally with more Service Engines Elastic Autoscaling 2x 1-core SEs Nx 1-core SEs 1 core 2,500 SSL TPS 5,000 SSL TPS 1M SSL TPS Scale to millions of TPS or hundreds of GBs of throughput
- 13. Confidential │ ©2020 VMware, Inc. 13 “Application fabric elasticity without loss of capacity with linear scale from Intel 2nd –Generation Xeon scalable processor- The equivalent performance on high- end proprietary hardware load balancers would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars”. Amit Pandey, ex- CEO of Avi, Head of NSX Services, VMware The Avi Service Engines run a purpose-built software stack that uses high performance DPDK libraries for fast packet processing, bypasses the Linux kernel stack (Linux kernel stack performance limitations8 are well known) and fully utilizes AES-NI and other crypto special instructions on Xeon processor to provide the highest possible performance on any commodity server or VM instance. Record Performance of VMware (Avi) Load Balancer on 2nd Gen Intel Xeon® Scalable Server Fabric elasticity without loss of capacity with linear scale! - Each Service Engine has 9 proxy cores. - Detailed test configuration is listed in the back up slide Disclaimer: Performance results are based on testing as of January 2020 and may not reflect all publicly available security updates. See configuration disclosure for details. No product can be absolutely secure. Results have been estimated or simulated using internal Intel analysis or architecture simulation or modeling,and provided to you for informational purposes. Any differences in your system hardware, software or configuration may affect your actual performance.
- 14. Confidential │ ©2020 VMware, Inc. 14 Third-party load balancing performance benchmark Principled Technologies White Paper Showcased 1M+ SSL TPS application performance delivered with the power of joint Intel + Avi solution
- 15. 15Confidential │ ©2020 VMware, Inc. How to achieve any scale on any app on any cloud • Rich application insights enable automation • Elastic autoscaling for Avi SEs and app servers • Seamless scale out or in based on traffic
- 16. Confidential │ ©2020 VMware, Inc. 16 How to Engage Sep 1, 2019 VMware Price List Oct 1, 2019 Partner Price List Nov 1, 2019 Partner Central LEARN TRY TRAIN avinetworks.com/ docs | webinars vmware.com/go/try-avi- networks avinetworks.com/wo rkshops
- 17. Confidential │ ©2020 VMware, Inc. Thank You