NSX Advanced Load Balancer
Load Balancing Platform

AT A GLANCE

Modern Load Balancing – Bring the Public Cloud Experience

For businesses today, the ability to rapidly and cost effectively deploy, and update applications is paramount. The infrastructure powering applications needs to deliver the efficiency of cloud operating models. The software-defined platform delivers applications consistently across bare metal servers, virtual machines and containers to ensure a fast, scalable, and secure application experience.

NSX Advanced Load Balancer

Consistent Application Delivery Across Multi-Cloud Environments

Multi-Cloud Consistency

Simplify administration with centralized policies and operational consistency across on-premises data centers and public clouds, including VMware, OpenStack, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

Pervasive Analytics

Gain unprecedented insights, including network, end users and security with real-time application performance monitoring, closed-loop analytics and deep machine learning.

Full Lifecycle Automation

Free infrastructure teams from manual tasks and enable DevOps teams with self-service. Application delivery automation toolkits include Python SDK, RESTful APIs, Ansible and Terraform integrations.

Future Proof

Extend application services such as container ingress seamlessly to cloud-native applications in Kubernetes and OpenShift environments through a single platform a with modern, distributed architecture.

Key Benefits and What's Included

Key Benefits

90% Faster Service Provisioning
Rapid Problem Resolution in seconds through app health scores, application analytics, security, and client insights
30% Reduction in TCO through ondemand application scaling and support for any bare metal server, VM, or container on-premises or in the cloud

What's Included

A single platform that provides:

• L4-L7 load balancing
Web application firewall
Container ingress gateway
Global server load balancing (GSLB)
Real-time application analytics
On-demand application autoscaling

Key Use Cases for NSX Advanced Load Balancer

Modern Load Balancing / SDDC

Modernize your data centers with automation, cloud-native load balancers, and TCO savings of over 50%. Transform your legacy load balancers from F5 or Citrix to 100% software solutions.

Public / Private Cloud

Deliver consistent application services including load balancing, web application firewalling and container networking across multi-cloud environments: VMware, Amazon AWS, Microsoft, Azure, and more.

Container Ingress

Extend enterprise-grade container networking and services across traditional applications in on-premises data centers and cloud-native applications in container environments.

Features

Features	DESCRIPTION
Enterprise-class load balancing	TLS 1.3 support, SSL termination, default gateway, GSLB, DNS, wildcard VIP and other L4-L7 services
Multi-cloud load balancing	Intelligent traffic routing across multiple sites and across private or public clouds, global server load balancing supported with Canary upgrades of leader and follower sites
Application performance monitoring	Monitor performance and record and replay network events with granular logging
Predictive autoscaling	Application and load balancer scaling based on real-time traffic patterns
Cloud connectors	VMware, SDN controllers, OpenStack, AWS, GCP, Azure, Linux Server Cloud, OpenShift/Kubernetes, VMware Cloud on AWS (customer-managed)
Distributed application security fabric	Granular app insights from distributed service proxies to secure web apps in real time
Application security	Positive security model and learning mode for web application firewall (WAF)
SSO / Client Authentication	SAML 2.0 authentication and authorization for back-end HTTP applications
Automation and programmability	REST API based solution for accelerated application delivery, extending automation from networking to developers with self-service portal enabled
Application analytics	Real-time telemetry from a distributed load balancing fabric that delivers millions of data points in real time
Centralized management and upgrade	Policy-based management and ability to selectively upgrade data plane with Flexible Upgrade
Networking protocols support	BGP, RHI and ECMP, BFD, IPv6, VLAN & trunking, VRF awareness
Consolidated container services	Kubernetes Services including ingress, WAF, GSLB, DNS/IPAM on a scalable platform with support for multi-cluster, multi-site and multi-AZ container clusters
SUPPORTED PLATFORMS
VMware	vCenter, VMware NSX, VMware Cloud on AWS
OpenStack	Queens, Rocky, Stein, RH OSP, Keystone v3
Bare Metal	RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, Oracle Enterprise Linux, Cisco CSP (NFV appliance)
Containers	Kubernetes, OpenShift, Amazon EKS, AKS, GKE
Public Cloud	Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), IBM Cloud, Oracle Cloud
SDN	Cisco ACI/APIC, VMware NSX, Nuage VSP, Juniper Contrail
IPAM / DNS	Avi DNS, Azure DNS, Azure DNS Private Zones, AWS Route 53, Infoblox, Custom DNS integration
Automation	Ansible, Terraform, Swagger, Python SDK, Go SDK, vRealize Orchestrator (vRO), Native REST API
Monitoring	Splunk, Cisco Tetration, Cisco AppDynamics, Graphite, Datadog, Logstash, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Syslog, Prometheus, Zabbix

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