VMware Avi Load Balancer

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 Hello,

As you all know that VMware NSX has native Load Balancing capabilities which provides Basic Load balancing to the virtualized environment.  But now VMware is planning to depreciate the native load balancing features and asking the VMware NSX customers to move to AVI Load Balancer product which will give advanced level of load balancing features which are supported by other third party LB vendors like F5, Cisco ACE etc...



VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (Avi) is an API (Application Programming Interface) first, self-service Multi-Cloud Application Services Platform that ensures consistent application delivery, bringing software load balancers, web application firewall (WAF), and container Ingress for applications across data centers and clouds. 




 

VMware’s Avi is a modern, software-defined elastic application delivery fabric. It is composed of a central control plane and a distributed data plane. VMware Avi Controller provides a centralized policy engine which delivers full life-cycle management for applications. Avi Service Engines (ASE) are the load-balancers that can be deployed across on-premises and clouds, natively in a fully orchestrated fashion by the Avi Controllers. The combination of Avi and NSX enables Avi Controller to be the single central point of management. As developers and network admins configure apps and load balancing instances, Avi Controller automatically spins up distributed load balancers (ASEs), and automatically places the virtual IPs (Internet Protocol) on the ASEs. 


Benefits of Avi solution

VMware Avi offers enterprises automation, elastic scale, agility, flexibility, speed, and cost effectiveness – for both the network layer (L2-3) and networks services layers (L4-7).  

Valuable Return on Investment (ROI): Customers can realize an Impressive ROI up to 573% over three years with rapid payback in short five months. 3 

Autoscaling: 97% faster scale to capacity with self-service provisioning and agility needed for providing load balancing capacity. 

Automation and visibility: Automated and real time reconfiguration of application services with changes in applications or networks  

Real-time application health:  Real-time analytics track application response times, examine connection logs, and monitor end user experience of applications to ensure satisfactory performance.  

Efficient Application Delivery Controller (ADC): Unlock the value of ADC solutions with 52% reduction in overall costs and realize up to 43% management efficiencies. Full application delivery and next-gen security capabilities like WAF (Web Application Firewall), application security, GSLB (Global Server Load Balancing), and container ingress in one single platform. 

Robust security with Web Application Firewall (WAF): With simplified and highly scalable application security, Avi delivers a distributed web security fabric with central policy management, on-demand autoscaling and built-in analytics. 

Optimized operations: With the Avi solution, customers realize 47% lower cost of operating and Improve application developers’ productivity by 8%. Thanks to software-defined load balancing, no overprovisioning, subscription-based licensing, and central management of distributed load balancers. 

To learn more about VMware AVI Load Balancer, follow below resource links.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7wW33ycPXk&list=PLVWhE5A1gLY6Y3qhuRFo7rEpPMdjsO6Q1&index=2

https://www.vmware.com/products/nsx-advanced-load-balancer.html




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