Scale application delivery controllers on demand

From increasing user numbers to data center consolidation and the deployment of more feature-rich applications, enterprises' ever-expanding infrastructures are putting more pressure on the network. Scaling application delivery networks (ADNs) to meet these evolving demands means increasing operational costs and complexity. The resulting strain on resources can limit a business' ability to respond quickly to development needs.

The VIPRION platform is a single, powerful Application Delivery Controller (ADC). It adopts modular high-performance plug-in cards, and plugging and unplugging modules will not interrupt application operation. With no need to add more devices to the network and segment applications, you can easily increase the processing capacity of your existing infrastructure as your needs grow. VIPRION provides you with the necessary scalability to develop a solid and sustainable ADN growth strategy.

main advantage

Reduce Costs
Reduce OPEX and CAPEX with F5's ScaleN architecture. The architecture provides unique flexibility to scale up, virtualize and scale out as needed.
Appliance consolidation
reduces the number of servers and application delivery controllers while meeting power, space, cooling and management needs.
Maximize Performance
Take advantage of Layer 4 and Layer 7 connection management and SSL processing capabilities to manage more demanding applications.
Higher reliability
enables ADN to be always available while supporting chassis and card-level redundancy.

Increase intelligence without increasing operational costs

As your expanding infrastructure requires more processing power for layer 4 and layer 7 processing, SSL and compression, etc., you simply add a card to the VIPRION chassis and it will start processing traffic automatically. Whether you're using one card or four, VIPRION is still one device and its management costs remain the same.

Simplify the network

VIPRION helps you simplify your network by offloading servers and consolidating equipment, saving data center management costs as well as power, space and cooling costs.

VIPRION's superior performance and scalability help reduce the number of application delivery controllers, even those required to deliver more demanding applications. By offloading computationally intensive processing, VIPRION can drastically reduce the number of application servers . VIPRION includes:

• SSL Hardware Acceleration—offloads costly SSL encryption. Accelerates key exchange and batch encryption to deliver the highest performance on the market.

• HTTP Compression—Ability to cost-effectively offload traffic compression processing from the server. Improve page load times and lower bandwidth usage.

• OneConnect? connection pool—aggregate millions of TCP requests into hundreds of server-side connections, increase server capacity, and ensure efficient processing of requests by back-end systems.

Maximize Large Application Performance

With its industry-leading Layer 4, Layer 7 and SSL performance, VIPRION can manage more demanding applications, offload server load and consolidate application delivery networks.

Achieving Higher Reliability
In VIPRION systems that include multiple cards, cards can be removed without interrupting operations. Other cards will immediately share the traffic processing. You can also add another level of redundancy by configuring VIPRION to be deployed as active or standby. The chassis is built to include redundant power supplies and field-replaceable components. Multi-level redundancy can greatly reduce the probability of system interruption.
Advantages of VIPRION Technology
By deploying VIPRION, your business will benefit from the superior capabilities provided by the unique F5 ScaleN architecture and patented hardware and software innovations. F5's ScaleN architecture enables you to scale up or out as needed, creating an elastic application delivery controller processing platform that can grow as business needs change. The ScaleN architecture provides an excellent way to scale application delivery services, enabling true deployment flexibility and simplifying system and application level maintenance. It achieves longer application uptime and helps you meet strict Service Level Agreements (ServiceLevelAgreements, SLAs).

The flexibility to scale up on demand, deploy virtual ADC instances and scale out is enabled by three key unique F5 technologies:

Clustered Multiprocessing (CMP) —CMP provides the ability to cluster and pool multiple processors (cores) in the system and across different processing cards, aiming to create a high-performance traffic processing platform. With CMP, VIPRION creates a virtualized processing fabric that efficiently utilizes all available CPU resources. As you add new cards, more processor cores are seamlessly added to the system. In the occasional failure, you can remove the card from the system without interrupting operations.

Virtual Clustered Multiprocessing (vCMP) —vCMP hypervisor enables multiple ADC instances to run on a VIPRION appliance, each with dedicated CPU, memory, and other resources. This provides multi-tenancy and complete network isolation. Each instance can then run a different version of the F5 TMOS operating system to meet business needs. vCMP allows you to implement virtualization while achieving a higher degree of redundancy and control.

Device Service Clustering (Device Service Clustering, DSC) - DSC provides the ability to group devices and services across multiple systems (device, VIPRION chassis, or virtual editions) to create a horizontal cluster. With DSC, you can create a cluster of highly available appliances that scale out on demand. Devices can be added to or removed from a device service cluster without interrupting application services. You can switch specific application services to any device in the cluster. With DSC, a 1:1 active-standby model can be scaled to N:1, where as many active devices as needed can share application load based on resource constraints and availability, enabling true scale-out.

Virtualization Processing Fabric Shares Add-In Card Load

Using custom discrete ASICs, high-speed bridge FPGAs and advanced software, VIPRION can jointly share the processing load within a single card and across the entire chassis. The physical interface is fully meshed. Any port on any card can be used for any application, so systems can be connected for redundancy and simplicity.

Cluster Management Reduces Administration Time
Reduces the time required to manage application delivery networks. To administrators, the VIPRION appliance appears like a single application delivery controller. One card is automatically selected as the "Master" card, and all settings and control functions are mapped to the other cards. When a new card is inserted, it installs the firmware version from the primary card, copies all of its settings, and begins processing traffic within minutes.
SuperVIP simplifies the network
VIPRION does not need to divide a single application with strict requirements, but uses SuperVIP. It is a virtual IP that covers multiple cards within a VIPRION system. Demanding applications will use SuperVIP to take full advantage of the processing power of all cards in the system.

TMOS offers high performance and flexibility

At the heart of VIPRION is F5's unique TMOS operating system, which provides a unified system for better application delivery, giving you complete visibility, flexibility and control across all services. TMOS enables VIPRION to intelligently adapt to the diverse and evolving requirements of applications and networks.

VIPRION platform

Each VIPRION system consists of a chassis and one to four cards.

Physical Specifications	VIPRION 4400 Chassis
size		12.2 " (30.9 cm ) high x 17.4" ( 44.2 cm ) wide x 21 " (53.3 cm ) deep rack mount chassis 7 rack units
weight	87 lbs (63.0 kg ) (4 power supplies, 1 fan tray, 3 empty )
power supply	Four 90VAC to 240VAC , adaptive 1435W maximum power input, suitable for low voltage line input 2390W maximum power input, suitable for high voltage line input 36VDC to 72VDC ( optional )
operating temperature	32° to 104°F (0° to 40 °C ) according to TelcordiaGR-63-CORE5.1.1 and 5.1.2
Relative humidity	At 40 °C , 10 to 90% according to TelcordiaGR-63-CORE5.1.1 and 5.1.2
Safety Agency Certification	UL60950 (UL1950-3 ) CSA-C22.2No.60950-00 (UL60950 binational standard ) CB test certification according to IEC950EN60950 NEBS certification ( optional )
Electromagnetic radiation certification	EN550221998ClassA EN550241998ClassA FCCPart15BClassA VCCIClassA