As shared in the VMware: Business Simplification, Portfolio Innovation and Ecosystem Standardization blog, we’re excited to introduce new Load Balancer as a Service (LBaaS) capabilities powered by VMware Aria Automation with VMware Avi Load Balancer, enhancing VMware Cloud Foundation’s network automation solution. Avi is available as an add-on to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF).
In response to a growing need from VMware by Broadcom customers to offer LBaaS capabilities like the public cloud providers, the new out of the box integration with Avi enables organizations to deliver a comprehensive set of LBaaS capabilities across the lifecycle for VCF-based private cloud environments.
VMware Cloud Foundation and Avi Enable the Cloud Operating Model
VCF and Avi together simplify private cloud operations throughout the Day 0-2 lifecycle. The VCF Automation capabilities, powered by VMware Aria Automation, enables organizations to maximize their investments in Avi and scale their LBaaS capabilities.
Cloud admins not only can provide self-service load balancing to end-user development teams, who have minimal network experience, but also can implement governance and control over the organization’s Avi resources. As a provider of the services, cloud admins can mitigate sprawl and waste of random LB resources, by leveraging consumption projects. This also means networking teams no longer have to manually create tickets to support load balancer requests, trying to keep up with demand.
Additionally, it helps establish a foundation for a predictable and repeatable automation service – reducing the time it takes to deliver load balancer services from weeks to hours, from manual to automated steps, from multiple tickets to a single self-service request, and from multiple teams to minimal teams involved. As a result, it helps the organization to lower overall operational cost.
VMware Cloud Foundation together with Avi provides a highly flexible and powerful LBaaS solution, putting Broadcom in a position to address more advanced LBaaS use cases. The wide range of options offered by Avi than was previously available with NSX-T LB and the flexible VCF automation architecture helps provide customers more freedom and choice to provision just the specific LBaaS capabilities they need.
Supporting next-gen cloud native and AI-powered application delivery with load balancing
Through built in VCF capabilities, cloud admins will be able to offer application teams self-service access to L4-L7 load balancing services. This will enable application and infrastructure teams to immediately deploy load balancing at the time of application provisioning, with minimal know-how of load balancing technology or the need to create manual tickets.
Empowering organizations with self-service delivery of software-defined load balancers can help VMware by Broadcom customers deliver and support next-gen cloud native and AI-powered applications across their private clouds.
Learn More
This new capability is available now in VMware Aria Automation 8.16.1 release.
To learn more about VMware Cloud Foundation and self-service delivery of software-defined load balancers for your VCF-based private cloud, check out these additional resources.
- VMware Cloud Foundation
- VMware Aria Automation
- VMware Avi Load Balancer (formerly NSX Advanced Load Balancer)
- Technical Blog: Deploying VMware Avi Load Balancer resources with VMware Aria Automation Templates
- VMware Aria Automation release notes
- Idem Avi Load Balancer Plug-in documentation
- Tech Zone: Getting Started with Aria Automation
- Tech Zone: Advanced Load Balancing for VMware Cloud Foundation
- Avi Education Center
- Avi How-to Videos
- Getting started with Aria Automation and NSX ALB Integration Video (coming soon)
- Load Balancer as a Service with VCF Webinar (coming soon)
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