F5 Solutions Combine With VXLAN To Support SDN

F5 Networks, Inc., the Application Delivery Networking (ADN) solutions provider, has announced support for VXLAN functionality, enabling organisations to seamlessly support software defined networking (SDN) initiatives by combining VMware and F5 solutions. F5 BIG-IP products can natively take advantage of the benefits of VXLAN in the latest VMware environments, based on VMware vSphere and vCloud Director. In addition, F5 is announcing its intent to add VXLAN virtual tunneling endpoint capabilities to its BIG-IP products, providing the ability to natively encapsulate and decapsulate VXLAN packets. This innovation will further enable organisations to reliably scale cloud environments and streamline operations.

Building on F5’s partnership with VMware—including recently announced participation in the VMware Ready for Networking and Security Program—these collaborative technology efforts help joint customers realise additional value by deploying the companies’ solutions in concert. Organisations can select either physical BIG-IP devices or BIG-IP virtual editions to leverage the full suite of F5’s ADN services, such as security, acceleration, and optimisation technologies, while realising the added efficiency of a VXLAN-based network.

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“F5 solutions occupy strategic points of control in the network, putting us in a great position to collaborate with VMware in optimising customers’ virtualisation and cloud infrastructures,” said Anil Pochiraju, Managing Director, F5 Networks India/SAARC. “The BIG-IP platform serves as an ideal gateway to help organisations achieve the full benefits of F5’s ADN services in their SDN deployments. To further this aim, F5 will continue to enhance its BIG-IP virtual editions in the coming months by increasing current throughput performance levels by up to 200 percent. Today’s announcement and F5’s ongoing investments in innovation underscore our commitment to customers’ cloud initiatives with VMware.”

“As customers embrace private, public, and hybrid clouds, we are working to help them overcome traditional network limitations in order to achieve greater efficiency, mobility, and network automation for their virtual workloads,” said Parag Patel, VP, Global Strategic Alliances, VMware. “Combining VMware vCloud Suite 5.1 with VXLAN functionality and F5’s BIG-IP platform will help customers accelerate their adoption of the cloud without sacrificing system flexibility or resilience.”