F5

One of the pillars of the Virtual Data Center is virtual platform infrastructure, or the virtual machine; however virtual platforms are dependent on many other, oft forgotten components of both the physical and virtual data center.

F5 pioneered the concept of breaking up data center virtualization technologies into eight unique categories within the data center. Any virtualization products or technologies implemented in the data center will fall into one of these eight categories.

Marry Benefits from Server and File Virtualization with F5 Acopia and VMware

A Closer Look at the Financial Benefits of Intelligent File Virtualization with F5 ARX

Best practices for a Microsoft Hyper-V Dynamic Data Center in an HP BladeSystem environment.

Intelligent file virtualization helps resolves the dilemma of managing and storing an ever increasing amount of information. This white paper introduces the F5 ARX intelligent file virtualization solution. It also discusses the key applications and benefits of this innovative technology.

Defining the baseline and process of virtualization maturity for the data center.

To ensure the full potential of your virtual platform solution, you need to make sure your application and storage network is prepared to handle the added stresses of a virtual machine (VM) infrastructure. F5® technology enables your network to adapt to virtualization needs, ensure high availability (HA), maximize resources, and improve performance so you can get the most out of your investment.

VMware Infrastructure products provide the next generation virtual platform for the new data center, but they don’t virtualize the network or application delivery. F5 BIG-IP LTM works with VMware to provide truly virtualized Application Delivery Networking.

F5 helps ensure maximum performance and availability for VDI.

Hundreds of organizations around the world use Microsoft® SharePoint® with  over 80 million implementations, allowing them to develop intelligent portals that seamlessly connect users, teams, and knowledge. With the release of Microsoft Offi ce SharePoint Server 2007, F5 has specifi cally developed and tested a comprehensive Application Ready infrastructure that enhances the security, availability and performance of SharePoint deployments, whether it’s over the LAN or across a global WAN.

Microsoft® Exchange® Server is the undisputed industry leader in corporate messaging. With the release of Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, not only does Exchange continue to provide rich, effi cient access to e-mail, calendars, attachments, contacts, and more, but Exchange Server 2007 adds some exciting infrastructure and performance improvements as well. F5’s comprehensive Application Ready infrastructure for Exchange Server 2007 allows organizations to easily provide additional performance, security and availability, to ensure maximum ROI with the minimum amount of work.

F5 has worked with Microsoft during the beta cycle and beyond to ensure a high level of interoperability and optimization with the entire Windows Server 2008 platform. F5’s Application Ready Network for Windows Server 2008 not only helps optimize end-to-end performance, availability, and scalability for Windows Server 2008 deployments, but reduces the costs associated with deployment, management, and operation.

SAP®, the world’s largest business software company, provides a comprehensive range of enterprise software applications and business solutions to empower every aspect of business. Organizations deploying SAP have invested a significant amount of time and money in these powerful applications. By taking advantage of F5’s Application Ready infrastructure for SAP, tested and validated at SAP, organizations can achieve a secure, fast and available network infrastructure that reduces the total cost of operation and increases ROI. And F5’s FirePass SSL VPN, BIG-IP Local Traffi c Manager and WANJet appliance have been certified by SAP for integration with SAP ERP 6.0 based on NetWeaver 7.0.

F5 is a worldwide Oracle Certified Partner, a proud member of Oracle Partner Network (OPN), and works closely with Oracle on the development and refinement of joint solutions including their Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA). By taking advantage of F5’s Application Ready Network for Oracle Application Server 10g, an integral part of Oracle Fusion Middleware, organizations can achieve an secure and optimized platform for delivering Oracle applications across the LAN and WAN.

F5 is a worldwide Oracle Certified Partner, a proud member of Oracle Partner Network (OPN), and works closely with Oracle on the development and refinement of their Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA). Oracle E-Business Suite is a fully integrated, comprehensive suite of business applications for the enterprise. In fact, Oracle is one of F5’s largest customers, providing application delivery networking to Oracle.com, and all of their internal and external enterprise applications for Oracle employees worldwide.

F5 has designed and painstakingly tested a comprehensive Application Ready Network infrastructure for PeopleSoft Enterprise applications, ensuring your organization achieves maximum ROI with the minimum amount of work. F5 provides all of the tools to help organizations optimize, secure, and deliver PeopleSoft Enterprise applications across the LAN and WAN.

F5 Application Delivery Networking Solutions are the networking foundation for this market leading CRM and Analytics application. Oracle and F5 have validated and jointly documented the interoperability of F5’s BIG-IP LTM and WebAccelerator (the BIG-IP module and standalone appliance) solutions with Siebel working in hundreds of customers worldwide.

F5 and both Oracle and BEA have collaborated on delivering market-leading Application Delivery Networking solutions. For BEA WebLogic Server 10, F5 has designed an integrated and adaptable network platform for delivering WebLogic applications across the LAN and WAN. The result is an intelligent and powerful solution that secures and speeds your WebLogic deployment today, while providing an optimized architecture for the future.

This paper is intended for people who will be proposing solutions, providing installation services or consulting, and who may be assisting in deploying Office SharePoint Server 2007 solutions accessed over a Wide Area Network (WAN). It will also be of interest to IT professionals who may be deploying and/or managing such Office SharePoint Server 2007 solutions.

This white paper is focused on the design and architecture of an OCS 2007 environment in an HP BladeSystem infrastructure. The document outlines a building block approach to deploying OCS on the HP BladeSystem and focuses on how the design decisions around levels of availability, scalability, and the OCS 2007 feature set impact the hardware that is deployed and the version of OCS that is used. The white paper also covers a brief overview of the Microsoft Unified Communications framework including Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Office Communications Server 2007 and an overview of the HP BladeSystem architecture and how the HP BladeSystem can help lower the total cost of ownership (TCO).

The focus of this report is performance testing of the core services of an OCS Enterprise Edition Consolidated Configuration and as deployed on an HP BladeSystem and HP StorageWorks solution. One requirement for any solution deploying more than one server in a pool is a hardware load balancer. In this solution a F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager is used.

In this paper, SAP and F5 present how modern application and network technologies can be combined to form productive SAP business application landscapes that perform well and securely when used globally.

Getting your applications to work properly over a Wide Area Network (WAN) is a complex task, and it is not likely to get easier any time soon. Trends such as data center consolidation, the advent of Web 2.0 applications, and the move to web-based application delivery have only served to increase complexity and slow user response times. Often, the result is sluggish application response and at worst, abandoned applications and shopping carts due to slow or failed web page loads. The good news is that you can do something to improve application performance over slow or congested WAN networks. An Application Delivery Network can accelerate your applications and help make sure they’re secure, fast, and available.

This paper is the second in a series. The first, Acceleration 101, describes acceleration features and terms. This paper focuses on topology options for deploying acceleration features in an Application Delivery Network (ADN).