VMware has announced a modern software alternative to legacy hardware load balancers and new platform enhancements for the NSX Advanced Load Balancer. VMware’s standalone load balancing solution supports agility, business resiliency, and enhanced security requirements. With the latest release, NSX Advanced Load Balancer can deliver platform enhancements to enable applications to scale elastically across any infrastructure in data centers and clouds with simplified operations, centralized control, real-time analytics, and end-to-end automation.
“NSX Advanced Load Balancer is changing all of this for customers, and we are winning with customers as evidenced by the nearly 70 percent growth in the number of VMware load balancing customers since the acquisition of Avi Networks last year. And as the current global pandemic accelerates digital initiatives across all industry segments, NSX Advanced Load Balancer is delivering a modern application delivery architecture to automate and scale applications, helping enable their resiliency and availability across data centers and clouds.” said Tom Gillis, senior vice president and general manager, Networking and Security Business Unit at VMware.
NSX Advanced Load Balancer is an enterprise-grade load balancing and application security platform built on cloud-native principles and delivered entirely as software. The platform provides local and global load balancing, web application firewall (WAF), application analytics, and Kubernetes ingress services across any data center or cloud. NSX Advanced Load Balancer is agnostic to the underlying environment and delivers load balancing and security software in both VMware and non-VMware environments. VMware will deliver new innovations in NSX Advanced Load Balancer 20.1, including:
• Cloud-scale networking enhancements to simplify global load balancing updates, full integration with Google Cloud Platform and VMware NSX-T integration.
• New architecture for consolidated Kubernetes Ingress Services optimized for multi-cluster, multi-site container deployments
• Automated PULSE Services for proactive customer case management and security services including WAF threat feeds
As a key pillar of VMware’s Virtual Cloud Network solution, NSX Advanced Load Balancer helps bring the public cloud experience of automated one-click deployment, pervasive connectivity and visibility, and intrinsic security to the entire network. This simplifies networking and security, saves customers time and money, and accelerates digital transformation. VMware’s Virtual Cloud Network solution is the only complete Layer 2-7 virtual networking stack that delivers innovative software-based capabilities for switching, routing, firewalling, load balancing and SD-WAN for enterprise and Telco/5G environments.
VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer 20.1 is expected to be available in VMware’s fiscal Q2 FY21 which ends on July 31, 2020.
