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BIG-IP Virtual Editions DATASHEET Deploy Software-Defined Application Services in Hybrid, Virtual, and Cloud Environments What’s Inside 2 Flexible, High-Performing vADCs for Hybrid Data Centers 3 Achieve a Software-Defined Data Center 4 Automated, On-Demand Virtual Edition Deployments with BIG-IQ Device 4 Deploy Mission-Critical Applications in the Amazon Web Services Cloud 5 Specifications 6 Supported Hypervisors and Linux Distributions 6 F5 BIG-IP Virtual Editions: Simplified Licensing 7 Get Started Today 7 F5 Global Services 7 DevCentral 8 More Information Virtualization is critical to maintaining an adaptable network and accomplishing the scale, consolidation, and business continuity demanded by today’s advanced application infrastructures. F5 can help you achieve data center virtualization with virtual editions that provide an agile, flexible, and efficient way to deploy and optimize application services. Using F5® BIG-IP® virtual editions (VEs), you can deploy the F5 Software-Defined Application Services™ (SDAS) fabric in hybrid, virtual, and cloud environments. With virtual editions available for all market-leading BIG-IP and F5 BIG-IQ™ products, you can rapidly provision intelligent services across the data center and into the cloud—with the same code, advanced application services, and breadth of features as F5’s leading hardware systems. Key Benefits Deploy with increased agility Optimize application services more efficiently Quickly and easily spin up and spin down application delivery services in the data center or cloud, using instant deployment options as needed. Rapidly provision and consolidate application services on your existing servers, unlocking the broadest feature density with a virtual footprint. Provide the ultimate in flexibility Achieve workload and fault isolation Get the most flexible deployment options in the industry, with support across all major virtualization platforms for both private and public cloud environments. Right-size the virtual app services specific to each application workload, isolating workloads without affecting the performance of other apps or services. DATASHEET BIG-IP Virtual Editions Flexible, High-Performing vADCs for Hybrid On-Premises Deployments Deploy physical Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs) on the edge of the data center, with virtual ADCs closer to your applications for the ultimate in flexibility and performance. This hybrid, on-premises deployment model is ideal for accelerating application deployments, achieving workload and fault isolation, and supporting tiered services. Virtual ADCs can be deployed rapidly to leverage existing infrastructure and reduce application time-tomarket. Gain workload and fault isolation with isolated, virtual ADC instances for individual applications or departments that require specific application services. Whether you are transitioning from a physical to a virtual deployment model or migrating from a private data center to the cloud, F5 has the physical and virtual ADCs to help you achieve your goals. Data Center BIG-IQ REST Physical Virtual DC Orchestration and Automation Virtual Infrastructure Clients Hypervisor vSwitch APP APP APP Hypervisor F5 BIG-IP Hardware vSwitch APP APP APP With a hybrid data center, an F5 physical ADC is deployed at the network edge to handle high volume and high throughput functions while virtual ADCs are aligned with specific applications that share similar resources. 2 DATASHEET BIG-IP Virtual Editions Achieve a Software-Defined Data Center Migrate to a software-defined data center (SDDC) with elasticity, application mobility, and flexible deployment options for virtual environments and the cloud. An SDAS fabric can be deployed on virtual ADCs to achieve a dynamic, scalable, and flexible SDDC for private and public cloud architectures. An SDDC is ideal for speeding application deployments, enabling dynamic changes in the data center, and keeping security close to the applications. Data Center REST DC Orchestration and Automation Clients Virtual Infrastructure Hypervisor vSwitch APP APP APP Hypervisor vSwitch APP APP APP For enterprise SDDCs, a BIG-IP VE is dynamically deployed for each application, providing true elasticity, application mobility, and resource and fault isolation that can scale as your network requirements grow. Deploy a BIG-IP virtual edition in your lab The BIG-IP Lab Virtual Edition gives you a cost-effective way to stage and test all of the enterprise BIG-IP modules in your lab environment. Because BIG-IP Lab VE is identical in functionality to the production versions of BIG-IP products, you can move your applications and application infrastructure from staging to production seamlessly. Deploying BIG-IP application delivery services in your lab is not only a safe way to test advanced configurations before deploying them into production, but also to complete certifications and train engineers. 3 DATASHEET BIG-IP Virtual Editions Automated, On-Demand VE Deployments with BIG-IQ Device F5 BIG-IQ™ Device provides automated deployment and centralized license management for BIG-IP virtual edition instances. Adding BIG-IQ Device to manage your multiple BIG-IP VE licenses gives you the ability to automate large-scale virtual ADC deployments in the private or public cloud. With BIG-IQ Device, you can spin up and provision groups of VEs from a single license pool on demand, and then when resource requirements decrease, spin down the VE and return it to the license pool for future use. VE license pools are available in increments of 25 instances. Virtual Infrastructure Hypervisor vSwitch APP F5 Licensing Server APP APP BIG-IQ 25-Pack of VEs BIG-IQ manages licensing for all VEs in the pool For multi-tenancy or large-scale virtual application deployments, VEs can be purchased in packs of 25 instances with a BIG-IQ Device to provision and manage the licenses as you spin up and spin down instances. Deploy Mission-Critical Applications in the Amazon Web Services Cloud When you use BIG-IP VEs in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, you get the flexibility and scalability you want—and the performance you need. Utilizing these two technologies together provides the following benefits: • Simplified cloud migration—Take full advantage of cloud resources as needed, then retreat within the data center as application performance allows. • Applications available on demand—Provide on-demand application availability by seamlessly bursting your application workloads to the AWS cloud. • Flexible licensing models—Pay as you go for just what you need, while the performance and acceleration features in the BIG-IP platform help reduce your overall consumption requirements. 4 DATASHEET BIG-IP Virtual Editions On-Premises Infrastructure DNS Services Administrators BIG-IP Platform Application Services Line of Business Applications Business Unit Application Manager BIG-IP Platform User Business Unit Application Manager Cloud Management & Orchestration Cloud Administrator VE Beta User BIG-IQ Cloud Virtual Edition Application Services Line of Business Applications VE Simplified Business Models BIG-IP Virtual Edition GOOD BETTER BEST Cloud Hosting Provider BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager BIG-IQ BIG-IQ Cloud Virtual Edition Move applications transparently to the AWS cloud from your local data center utilizing the BIG-IQ AWS connector in concert with BIG-IP VE. Expand and contract your application infrastructure on-demand to address seasonal spikes in application utilization. Specifications Available in a range of performance options, F5 virtual editions can be sized and configured to suit the application services required. Performance Starting Maximum L7 requests per second 3,000 450,000 L4 connections per second 2,000 135,000 Throughput 25 Mbps 10 Gbps Maximum connections 1 million 10 million Maximum SSL TPS (1,000 keys / 2,000 keys) 900 / 900 12,000 / 3,550 SSL throughput 23 Mbps 4 Gbps 20 Mbps 4 Gbps SSL Software compression Maximum software compression throughput 5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager performance with Dell PowerEdge R620 with Intel Xeon CPU E5-2670 0 @ 2.6GHz and Intel 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFP+ NIC configured for PCI pass-through. DATASHEET BIG-IP Virtual Editions Supported Hypervisors and Linux Distributions F5 offers the most flexible deployment options in the industry, with support across all major virtualization platforms for both private and public clouds. VMware vSphere KVM and Community Xen Citrix XenServer Microsoft Hyper-V Amazon AWS • = New in v11.4 Lab 25M 200M 1G 3G 5G 10G • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • = New in v11.5 F5 virtual editions support the broadest range of major hypervisor and virtualization platforms for VMware, Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V, Amazon Web Services EC2, and Linux. For the full list of supported versions, please search for “Supported Hypervisors Matrix” on ask.f5.com. F5 BIG-IP Virtual Editions: Simplified Licensing F5 virtual editions are available for all BIG-IP modules and can be purchased by throughput tier from the 10M non-production lab license to the 25M, 200M, 1G, 3G, 5G, and 10G production licenses. Meeting your applications’ needs in a dynamic environment has never been easier. F5’s Good, Better, Best provides you with the flexibility to provision advanced modules on demand, at the best value. • Decide what solutions are right for your application’s environment with F5’s reference architectures. • Provision the modules needed to run your applications with F5’s Good, Better, Best offerings. • Implement complete application flexibility with the ability to deploy your modules on a virtual or physical platform. 6 DATASHEET BIG-IP Virtual Editions Get Started Today See for yourself how BIG-IP virtual editions can provide an agile, flexible, and efficient way to deploy and optimize application services. Download the free BIG-IP LTM VE trial Start testing how you can make your application fast, secure, and available with BIG-IP LTM VE. Download a 90-day trial of BIG-IP LTM VE now. Get a full evaluation license Request a free evaluation license to gain access to the latest versions of F5 virtual editions. Buy BIG-IP for your development lab Build, test, configure, and stage BIG-IP modules in your development lab. Try BIG-IP VEs in the AWS Cloud Access the AWS Marketplace to try BIG-IP VEs with pay-as-you-go hourly billing. F5 Global Services F5 Global Services offers world-class support, training, and consulting to help you get the most from your F5 investment. Whether it’s providing fast answers to questions, training internal teams, or handling entire implementations from design to deployment, F5 Global Services can help ensure your applications are always secure, fast, and reliable. For more information about F5 Global Services, contact consulting@f5.com or visit f5.com/services. DevCentral The F5 DevCentral™ user community of more than 120,000 members is your source for the best technical documentation, discussion forums, blogs, media, and more related to Application Delivery Networking. 7 8 DATASHEET BIG-IP Virtual Editions More Information To learn more about the BIG-IP family of products, visit f5.com to find these and other resources: Datasheets BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager BIG-IP Application Security Manager BIG-IP Access Policy Manager BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager BIG-IP Carrier-Grade NAT BIG-IP Policy Enforcement Manager Web page Platforms Case studies Content Management Provider Helps Customers Reap Cloud Advantages Ardenta Creates a Multi-Tenanted IT Infrastructure with F5 ADCs Cerner Uses Virtualized F5 Solution to Ensure Availability of Hospital Health Care Systems White papers Creating a Hybrid ADN Architecture with Both Virtual and Physical ADCs BIG-IP Virtual Edition Products—The Virtual ADCs Your Application Delivery Network Has Been Missing F5 Networks, Inc. 401 Elliott Avenue West, Seattle, WA 98119 F5 Networks, Inc. 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