network traffic control using customized vmware appliance
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AS-11. NETWORK TRAFFIC CONTROL USING CUSTOMIZED VMWARE APPLIANCE. P.N. Vineeth Kumar [email protected] Software QA Engineer II Dec/03/2007. AIM. Creating specialized virtual appliances and providing a single box solution for complex networks. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
NETWORK TRAFFIC CONTROL USING
CUSTOMIZED VMWARE APPLIANCE
P.N. Vineeth [email protected]
Software QA Engineer IIDec/03/2007
AS-11
Creating specialized virtual appliances and providing a single box solution for complex networks.
AIM
Managing such appliances using a GUI or through a ready-to-deploy format.
Packaging ideas along with the product- Possibilities : Virtualization at all layers of the OSI reference model.
- Finding possibilities of using VMware technology on each of these layers.
- Customer scenarios related to each of them.
- Chalking out new areas / methods for increasing the productivity / efficiency of an existing virtualized platform.
- Providing simple, yet highly efficient solutions based on virtualization, to solve frequent issues faced by customer.
- Feasibility of the solution should be within a chalk point.
- Nurturing ideas / solutions for future enhancements on existing platforms for customer satisfaction.
- Updating customers with new ideas which are tested and certified, on a routine basis, along with patches, if needed.
- And many more
Typical Traffic Flow
DMZ
Evils of Existing Networking Techniques
Major Network components / devices
Routers
Switches
Firewalls
Load Balancers
Traffic Splitter
Single Box Solution
ESX / VMWARE Server
Physical Interfaces
Inte
rnet
/ C
lient
Net
wor
k
Inte
rnal
/ S
erve
r Lay
er
Split
ter
/B
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r
FirewallLoad-balancer
Load-balancer failover
IPVS Ratio 2:1 x 2 1:1 x 2 Fail-over
1:1 x 2
Proposed Setup
VMWAE/ESX Server
I/P NICs
O/P NICS
Fail-over
Classic ESX
VM
VM
VM
VM
VM
VM
MASTER VM
Physical Switch
Fail-over
Proposed Positives
DMZ on DVD
The entire set of VMs and its configuration data can be put on a single DVD. The deployment of the solution is only a click away. The VMs will be generalized and only the configuration data varies between
setups. Configurations can be stored centralized location and can be made accessible
to the all the setups of a datacenter. The VM network within an ESX can be represented as an XML, and hence we
can save the network setup in a portable format. Drag and drop GUI can help is managing the VMs on the virtual network. The
configurations needs to be altered automatically. Configuration data can be generated using a wizard and are stored in portable
format (say XML). The entire network along with it’s configuration can be backed up for
restoration process ( worst case scenario), on a set of DVD or any other removable media.
Should be made compatible with upcoming projects of virtualizing networking components (like routers and switches).