7 requirements for modern load balancers

Legacy load balancers and Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) were not designedfor an era of a software-defined infrastructure, virtualization and cloud-based

applications. Look for the following before buying your next ADC.

AVICentralized controller and policy

repository provides single point ofcontrol and automation.

LEGACYEach hardware (or software)appliance managed individually.90% higher opex.

AVIPure software-only solution

that runs on any x86, VMs or containers.

LEGACYProprietary hardware ADCappliances need planning for power,space and spare inventory.

AVIIntegrated Inline Analytics™

give insights to root-cause & fixapplication performance issues.

LEGACYNeeds additional out-of-band monitoring tools/network plus agents inserted within applications.

AVISecurity config. analyzer and

anomaly detection auto-mitigate DDoS/HTTP/SSL vulnerabilities.

LEGACYAlerts from individual ADCs manually analyzed. Security misconfigurations, outdated ciphers not flagged.

AVIEach customer/LOB/developergets dedicated ADCs with data

& control plane isolation

LEGACYMultiple tenants share samehardware/software device.Upgrades disrupt all app owners.

LEGACYNeed to overprovision scale/capacity upfront based on projecte“peak” scenario.

AVIZero capex upfront. ADCs

automatically spun up based onreal-time application requirements.

100% SOFTWARE

APPLICATIONVISIBILITY

RISKAUTO-MITIGATION

MULTI-TENANCY

NO-CAPACITYPRE-PROVISIONING

OPERATIONALSIMPLICITY

SELF-SERVICELEGACYInstall & config. each new ADC appliance by networking experts takes weeks.

AVI30 seconds to create and provision

L4-L7 network services usingREST APIs or Avi UI.

STRAIGHT TALK: 7 REQUIREMENTSFOR MODERN-DAY LOAD BALANCERS

SELF SERVICEPROVISIONING

• A Load Balancer in 30 seconds• Multi-tenancy across tenants• 100% REST APIs

SECURITY INSIGHTS• Mis-configuration Analyzer• SSL Score• DDoS Attack Mitigation

TROUBLESHOOTINGAPP PERFORMANCE• Root cause: Rogue server/disk/network • Misbehaving clients/devices, Network issues• Google-like search / Death of TCPdumps

ZERO TOUCH OPERATIONS• vCenter/OpenStack Integration• Move to Hybrid Cloud (AWS)• Elastic Scale in 20 seconds