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Data Center Virtualization
Bring services together to work as one complete virtual data center
Virtualization is quickly becoming the most disruptive data center technology in years, causing enterprises to rethink and rebuild their data centers from the ground up. Many virtualization technologies are available to solve any number of problems, but none of these solutions look at the data center as a single entity.
F5 brings these technologies together--including hardware, operating system, and network virtualization--to create a complete virtual data center. Our solutions have been designed to work together to deliver applications to users virtually, helping achieve the many benefits of a shared, virtual data center--including lower hardware costs, better availability, and easier maintenance.
Why do I need data center virtualization?
Business benefits of using F5 with your data center virtualization solution include:
- Reduction of hardware acquisition costs.
With F5 solutions, you need less hardware--or less expensive hardware--to do the same work. - 99.999% availability.
Our data center virtualization solutions let you bring down one server without affecting the others. - The ability to bring down an entire data center for maintenance.For redundant data centers managed by an intelligent DNS system, you can bring down one data center for maintenance without affecting the other data centers or impacting users.
Top Case Studies
Top White Papers
- 7 Virtualization Challenges: Building a Virtualization-Ready Application and Storage Networking Infrastructure
- HP White Paper: Best practices for a Microsoft Hyper-V Dynamic Data Center in an HP BladeSystem environment
- VMware DRS: Why You Still Need Assured Application Delivery and Application Delivery Networking
- Keeping Your Head Above the Cloud: Seven Data Center Challenges to Consider Before Going Virtual
- The VDC maturity model - Moving up the virtual data center stack
- Virtual data center maturity model explained
- Data Center Virtualization Q&A
- Security implications of the virtualized data center
- F5 and the 8 ways to virtualization
- Virtualization defined - eight different ways
- Green IT: The three "R"s
- VIPRION: The cost of management
Top News Articles
- VMware and F5 Networks: The Virtual Future is Here
- Microsoft Virtualization Meets F5: Making Dynamic IT Even More Dynamic
- Is virtualization 2.0 ready for mission-critical?
- 8 ways to virtualize
How do I implement data center virtualization?
Data center virtualization typically starts with a ground-up approach, by replacing key infrastructure elements with devices that can be virtually managed and distributed. F5 makes implementing our devices with data center virtualization solutions extremely easy with our comprehensive deployment guides that provide guidance and detailed instructions on how to configure F5 products for leading virtualization platforms.
What F5 offerings do I need for a data center virtualization solution?
F5 products can efficiently deliver end-to-end application security, performance, and availability. We enable organizations to realize the benefits of virtualization by giving them the necessary building blocks to support virtualization in the infrastructure.
