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BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager
Presented by:
your name, your title
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Getting Users to the Best Available Data Center
Client
L-DNS
Site 1 (Primary)
Site 2 (Back up)
Router
Router
BIG-IP GTM
BIG-IP LTM
Corporate Servers
BIG-IP GTM
BIG-IP LTM
Corporate Servers
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Powering Mission-Critical Events
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High Cost of Downtime
• 33% of businesses did not
have Disaster Recovery
plans in place
• 16% of businesses lost
between $100-$500K/day
• 26% of businesses don’t
know how much they lost
Source: AT&T and IAEM report
“47% of the businesses cited that disaster recovery was a
prime target for IT Spending” – Network Computing
Survivor’s Guide to 2006 survey
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DNS Management Errors Remain Pervasive
“We screwed up. This is the worst day
of my professional life “
– Network Administrator at Microsoft
“Microsoft's websites were offline for up to 23 hours the most dramatic snafu to date on the Internet because of DNS equipment misconfiguration affecting
more than 72 million users.”
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Struggling to Deliver Multi-service Applications
Service Oriented
Architecture
Clinical
Record
Services
Clinical records down in
Dallas data center!
Employee
Information
Services
Personal
Information
Services
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Manual Recovery is Difficult
Slow to Implement
Error Prone
Costly
Network
Administrator
Labor Intensive
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SOA Application Management
Delivering unique flexibility and intelligence to
meet emerging application challenges
San Francisco
Data Center
Washington DC
Data Center
High availability
Persistence
Ease of maintenance
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Manage Service Dependencies
Data Center B
Data Center A
One step failover
NewCar App
Solution - BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager
Challenge
Hundreds of applications
Manual failover is slow, error prone
Multi-step failover to shut down
each application service
No instantaneous failover
Benefits
Lower complexity, ease management
Reduced management overhead
Cost savings from reduced staff
Eliminate cost of downtime
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Intelligent Session Persistence
Data Center Dallas
Data Center Boston
Stocks Funds Bonds
Stocks Funds Bonds
Session 1
10:38am
Session 2
11:27am
Solution -
Retirement
Portfolio
BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager
Challenges
Client’s transaction history was lost
Clients forced to relogin, extra security overhead
No way to track application state
based on client information
Corrupted data and lost revenue
Benefits
Better end-user experience
Improved profitability through recovery
of lost revenue
Reduced security overhead
Reduced management overhead
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Distributed Application Management
Manage multiple services as part of a collective application
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Eliminate Downtime from DNS Errors
ZoneRunner ®
Only integrated DNS
Management Utility
Easy DNS management
Auto population of protocols
Validation/error checking
Rollback to the last
transaction
Importation of zones
Automatic reverse lookups
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New GUI for Superior Manageability
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New BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager
Raising the bar for global
application delivery
Unmatched Intelligence, Management, and Performance
SOA Application Management
ZoneRunner® - Eliminate DNS Errors
Advanced application and component monitoring
iRules - Flexibility to define distribution policies
IPv6 AAAA record support
Leading DNS performance (40K Res/s )
TMOS
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BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager
BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager
Application Health Features
Management Features
Performance Features
• Composite monitors
• Application-specific monitors
• Distributed application monitoring
• New and improved user interface
• ZoneRunner - New zone file
management tool
• New and improved IP classifier
• Support for IPv6 networks
• Distributed application model
• Client continuity
• iRules
• 3x performance increase
$26,990 - Standalone system (1500 - new platform)
$23,990 - Add-on module to BIG-IP
Optional modules: IPV6
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BIG-IP GTM Platform Transition
BIG-IP
1000
BIG-IP BIG-IP 3-DNS BIG-IP BIG-IP
2400
51X0
520 520/540 1500
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GTM v9.x
Standalone
GTM v9.x
Module
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Requires a memory upgrade. See Internal FAQ for trade-in promotion.
BIG-IP BIG-IP
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6400
BIG-IP
6800
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BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager Benefits
Reduces TCO and improves uptime
Eliminates lost revenue from broken data transactions
Visibility into application health and faster recovery times
Only solution with simplified zone file management to
reduce DNS risks
High performance DNS server built-in
First and only solution in the industry to manage SOA
applications
Only solution that supports 3rd party LB vendors
Features TMOS and iControl
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GTM Delivers Unmatched Services
Performance
Management
Availability
F5
Composite Monitors
Application Specific Monitors
Distributed application monitoring
Load balancing
Integrated Zone File Management
Support for IPv6
Distributed Application Management
Secure Web Management
Client Continuity
iRules
High Performance DNS
Authoritative DNS
CDN Support
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Why Should You Buy GTM?
Does your business have a disaster recovery plan for natural
disasters?
Does your business have global clients that need
regionalized access to content?
Does your business want to maximize your investment in the
secondary data center?
Is DNS management error prone and cumbersome?
Do you follow a multi-step manual failover process?
Are you rolling out SOA applications soon?
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