In the fast-paced world of IT, every second counts, and every delay can lead to a cascade of problems and lost business. This is especially true when dealing with load balancers, the unsung heroes that keep applications available and scalable. But here is the catch – not all load balancers are created equal. If you are still stuck with legacy load balancers, you might find yourself drowning in a sea of IT tickets and complexity. It is time to make a splash and ride the wave of transformation with the VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer – your lifesaver for your ticket tsunami.
Legacy Load Balancers Equals Ticket Tsunami
Your legacy load balancers are a key bottleneck for efficient application delivery, incapable of keeping up with the demands of modern business. The result? A never-ending stream of problems and tickets that threaten to overwhelm you.
Overload of Messy Tickets
With legacy load balancers, you are looking at hundreds, if not thousands of tickets in a year – causing a slow response to your business needs. Due to lack of automation, application teams must open multiple tickets for IP address allocation, DNS entry, certificate management, load balancer provisioning and configuration, and routing table updates. Each of these tickets requires manual intervention, dragging down your efficiency and wasting precious time. Your load balancing teams are inundated with busy work and are not able to focus on more strategic outcomes.
Routine Tasks, Extraordinary Effort
Most of these tickets stem from routine tasks like adding a new virtual IP, adding, or removing an application server to a load balancing pool, or changing load balancing capacity due to application traffic volume changes. It should be a breeze to handle. Instead, the tasks become cumbersome due to lack of self-service features for your legacy load balancer. This not only slows down your response time but also zaps your team’s morale as no one enjoys doing repetitive tasks.
Growing Pains while Scaling Up
As your business grows, so does your number of applications, load balancers, and data centers or clouds. With a legacy load balancer, the number of tickets is bound to increase exponentially and overwhelm your team. It is like trying to navigate a tsunami with a leaky lifeboat – an inevitable disaster waiting to happen. It is time to act now.
From Ticket Tsunami to Tranquility with VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer
But fear not! The NSX Advanced Load Balancer is here to rescue you from the ticket tsunami and breathe new life into your IT operations. Here is how you achieve tranquility:
Efficient Automation
Say goodbye to drowning in a sea of tickets. The NSX Advanced Load Balancer comes armed with automation capabilities that drastically reduce the number of tickets flooding your inbox. NSX ALB automatically gets IP address from IPAM, does DNS registration, acquires SSL certificate, does NSX route, firewall updates and more. Tasks that used to require manual intervention are now streamlined and automated, giving your team the breathing room they deserve.
Empowerment through Self-Service
With the NSX Advanced Load Balancer, you are not just saving time – you are empowering your application teams. Routine tasks are no longer a burden on your IT staff; instead, application teams can take charge of their own asks through self-service. The result? Fewer tickets, faster deployments, and happier teams all around. The modern SDN based architecture of NSX ALB is designed for self-service to achieve orchestration by multiple tenants, limited blast radius, and extensive and granular RBAC.
Take Control Now
The power of software-defined networking (SDN) comes into play, allowing you to create a single automated configuration that spans multiple load balancers, data centers and clouds. Due to the centralized control plane of NSX ALB, you no longer need to repeat the same task.
Say sayonara to ticket tsunamis, legacy load balancers, and unhappy application and IT teams with automation, self-service capabilities for application teams and reduce complexity with Software defined architecture with VMware NSX ALB. Sail in tranquil waters with VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer. To learn more, attend a webinar or a workshop.
Meet the Author
Pankaj leads product and solutions marketing and go to market strategy for NSX at VMware. He advises CIOs and business leaders for technology and business model transitions. In prior roles at Cisco and Citrix, he led networking, cybersecurity and software solution marketing.
