This year VMware Explore is at The Venetian from Aug 26-29 in Las Vegas! Our sessions will unveil the latest advancements by our teams and showcase how our valued customers are harnessing the power of VMware Avi Load Balancer. In today’s dynamic technology landscape of multi-cloud and microservices architectures, we’re leading the way, offering innovative solutions for application delivery and security.
Join us in securing your spot for this extraordinary event, where you’ll explore the boundless possibilities that the Avi Load Balancer brings to your IT environment.
Innovations in ransomware prevention and cloud-speed application delivery with vDefend and Avi [2267]
Distributed, software-defined security and load balancing are critical to deploy applications rapidly and to defend against malware and ransomware in a secure and resilient VCF private cloud. VMware vDefend and Avi Load Balancer are plug-and-play network services for VCF, delivering operational simplicity with unmatched visibility and application analytics to cloud and security admins. VMware vDefend protects your applications and data from unrelenting ransomware attacks and accelerates your journey to Zero Trust with multi-layer, defense-in-depth security. GenAI co-pilot with vDefend revolutionizes threat detection and transforms SOC operations by alleviating alert fatigue. Avi Load Balancer ensures app delivery at cloud speed with an elastic load balancer, container ingress and web application firewall. Join this session to learn about new innovations and strategic directions for vDefend and Avi to drastically buy-down cyber risk and accelerate application delivery.
Speakers:
Umesh Mahajan, VP & GM, Broadcom
Deploy Avi Load Balancer to Enhance Your VCF Private Cloud [1703]
VMware Cloud Foundation is the industry leader in the software-defined private cloud solution and VMware Avi Load Balancer serves as a tightly integrated software-defined solution tailored specifically for VCF environments. Join us in this session to delve deeper into the Avi Load Balancer integration (SDDC Manager & Aria Automation) and discover how Avi enhances application visibility, security & self-service capability for VCF users across VMs and Kubernetes environments, including Tanzu Application Services, ensuring comprehensive support for diverse deployment scenarios.
Speakers:
Arif Altalib, Senior Manager, Broadcom
Prashant Gandhi, Broadcom
Securing Ingress and Gateway API with Avi Load Balancer for any Kubernetes Environment [1834]
Visibility is the best security – see how VMware Avi Load Balancer’s Avi Kubernetes Operator (AKO) and Avi Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Operator (AMKO) can secure your container workloads in any Kubernetes environment including VMware Tanzu, Tanzu Application Platform (TAP) and OpenShift Redhat. Providing best in class analytics and visibility along with security allows you to protect your containers. In the sessoin, we’re introducing GA Gateway API to future proof your environments.
Speakers:
Chris Grice, Technology Product Management, Broadcom
Matt Adam, Technology Product Management, Broadcom
Load Balancing at the Speed of Apps with Automation and Self-Service [1835]
Automation is crucial for every product, but the true test is in creating a seamless experience that fosters its implementation. Join us for an enlightening session where we’ll explore how VMware Avi Load Balancer’s built-in capabilities simplify the process of automation initiation. Throughout our discussion, we’ll examine industry-leading practices and toolkits from Ansible, Terraform and vRealize Automation, and explore methodologies like CI/CD and automated testing. We’ll also delve into real-world case studies, revealing how Avi empowers customers to effortlessly tackle extensive automation tasks.
Speakers:
Matt Adam, Technology Product Management, Broadcom
Nick Robbins, Technology Product Management, Broadcom
Best Practices on Troubleshooting and Application Analytics with Avi Load Balancer [1836]
Efficiently troubleshooting deployments are crucial for seamless operations and productivity. Join this session to gain invaluable insights into VMware Avi Load Balancer’s best practices and methodologies, exploring techniques for addressing troubleshooting and capacity management challenges, optimizing resource allocation, and ensuring reliability and scalability. The session provides a comprehensive guide for enhancing deployment management and operational efficiency. We will also unveil a conversion tool to smoothe the transition from legacy load balancers.
Speakers:
Matt Adam, Technology Product Management, Broadcom
Abdul Aziz Mohammed, Senior Technology Product Management, Broadcom
Design Guide for Container Ingress Security and Application Security Automation [2048]
When deploying a large fleet of applications it is crucial that all parts of the puzzle can be fully automated. This is especially true when compliance needs require the use of advanced techniques like a Web Application Firewall. In this session, we will explore the caveats and best practices on how to automate the deployment of security tools in the Avi Load Balancer and keep the security and the applications team happy.
Speaker:
Abdul Aziz Mohammed, Senior Technology Product Management, Broadcom
Chris Grice, Technology Product Management, Broadcom
Deep Dive into Application Delivery with VMware Avi Load Balancer [1677]
Fast paced deep dive into application delivery with the VMware Avi Load Balancer. A view into Avi’s game changing distributed architecture, verbose analytics, and scalability. Learn how to manage at scale, from deployment to application and network troubleshooting.
Speaker:
Nathan McMahon, Technology Product Management, Broadcom
VCF and Advanced Use Cases [1973]
Ask me anything regarding VCF, Aria Automation (previously vRA), TAS (previously Pivotal Cloud Foundry), WAF, GSLB
Speaker:
Abdul Aziz Mohammed, Technology Product Management, Broadcom
Arif Altalib, Director of Product Management, Broadcom
Kubernetes Ingress and Load Balancing for Container Workloads [2379]
Come learn best practices and architectures surrounding Avi Kubernetes Operator (AKO), TAS (previously Pivotal Cloud Foundry) and Container Load balancing. Feel free to bring your own questions
Speaker:
Chris Grice, Technology Product Management, Broadcom
Reimagining Load Balancing Capabilities: NSX-T to Avi with Aria Automation [1187]
In this session we will cover a unique scenario of an industry leading transportation customer, where all their IaaS infrastructure is running on VMware Cloud Foundation, managed by Aria Automation and using NSX-T as their load balancer for their applications, in their pursuit of migrating to Avi Load Balancer while maintaining full management capabilities, incurring in zero downtime, and future-proofing their deployments to prepare them to take full advantage of the AVI Load Balancer features.
The session will not only cover the high level design, but it will give a hard and deep look under the hood to understand the ins and outs of every step of the migration efforts
Speakers:
Lucho Delorenzi, Senior Architect, VMware
Arif Altalib, Senior Manager, Technology Product Manager, Broadcom
Power User: Avi Datascript Tips and Tricks [1457]
Simplify application delivery and load balancing via data plane manipulation. VMware Avi Load Balancer’s Datascript enables network engineers to solve complex problems easily with a little bit of scripting. Explore when to script, when not to, how to import scripts from other vendors, and shine light on some of the more interesting corners of this powerful language.
Speaker:
Nathan McMahon, Technology Product Management, Broadcom
Power User: Avi Observability and Analytics [1679]
Solve complex application and network issues with readily available analytics in the VMware Avi Load Balancer. Agentless, effortless visibility to rapidly resolve common and complex issues. This session will explore problem resolution from the perspective of a network engineer in an application centric world. The workshop will show the difference between data and information, methods to triage network versus application issues, utilizing analytics for proactive resource planning and integrating Avi insights into third party monitoring tools.
Speakers:
Nathan McMahon, Technology Product Management, Broadcom
App Security Layers – Protect Your Applications [2163]
In this demo, we will review how to set up the individual application security layers on the Avi Load Balancer to protect all kinds of attacks: from blocking known bad IPs, to sensitive malicious bot traffic, to rate limiting sensitive URLs, and finally applying OWASP top 10 protection using WAF.
Speakers:
Nathan McMahon, Technology Product Management, Broadcom
Please explore both Part 2 and Part 3 of this blog as well for more information.
