Moving to a virtualized environment enables tremendous improvements in data center productivity and flexibility. But virtualization can also burden an IT infrastructure, resulting in decreased performance and availability, compounded by increases in cost and complexity. Seven key challenges typically arise when IT organizations migrate to a virtualized environment: resource starvation, lack of application awareness, unanticipated costs, unused virtualization features, increased storage requirements, a congested storage network, and increased management complexity. By laying the foundation with a suitable network and storage infrastructure, administrators can overcome potential pitfalls of virtualization and reap bottom-line business benefits.
F5 Networks offers a range of products designed to prepare network and storage infrastructures and help achieve the full benefits of virtualization. By facilitating application delivery from storage to application server to Web server to end user, F5® BIG-IP® Local Traffic ManagerTM (LTM) systems, F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic ManagerTM (GTM) systems, and F5 ARX® Series intelligent file virtualization devices help organizations cost-effectively meet the heightened demands of virtualization. These F5 BIG-IP and F5 ARX Series products are designed to work seamlessly with supported DellTM PowerEdgeTM servers, Dell EqualLogicTM PS Series Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network arrays, Dell PowerVaultTM storage arrays, and EMC® Celerra® storage arrays to help increase availability, enhance performance, and reduce total cost of ownership for virtualized data center environments.
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