Cisco Cisco ACE Application Control Engine Module Anwendung
Cisco Application Control Engine in the Virtual Data Center
At-A-Glance
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Overview
Cisco
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Application Control Engine (ACE) in the Virtual Data Center (AVDC) is part of
Cisco’s Data Center 3.0 solution, further simplifying virtual machine provisioning and
operation.
operation.
Cisco ACE is the industry’s only virtualized load-balancing and application delivery
solution designed to meet the requirements of today’s application delivery. Cisco ACE
is a state-of-the-art virtualized load balancer and an application delivery solution that
includes server load balancing, content switching, server offloading, and application
optimization. Server load balancing, the primary capability of the Cisco ACE, is a mech-
anism for distributing traffic across multiple servers, offering high application availability
and server resource utilization.
solution designed to meet the requirements of today’s application delivery. Cisco ACE
is a state-of-the-art virtualized load balancer and an application delivery solution that
includes server load balancing, content switching, server offloading, and application
optimization. Server load balancing, the primary capability of the Cisco ACE, is a mech-
anism for distributing traffic across multiple servers, offering high application availability
and server resource utilization.
The Cisco ACE product family addresses many of the core challenges facing the virtual
data center. These products provide an application delivery solution that improves appli-
cation scale and availability while enabling better utilization of infrastructure resources
through offload and compression technologies. The Cisco ACE products are evolving to
include the following capabilities that integrate into a virtual data center:
data center. These products provide an application delivery solution that improves appli-
cation scale and availability while enabling better utilization of infrastructure resources
through offload and compression technologies. The Cisco ACE products are evolving to
include the following capabilities that integrate into a virtual data center:
Virtual machine intelligence: Improved visibility into the state of virtual machines,
applications, and the underlying support infrastructure
Automation: Improved coordination and integration with third-party products (such
as VMware vCenter), allowing Cisco ACE to respond dynamically to changes in the
network and share network events
Performance and scale: Hardware enhancements that address the increased
scale requirements demanded by large enterprise and service provider custom-
ers
Simplification: Streamlined deployment and ongoing maintenance, including
simplified provisioning through guided setup, simplified deployment through the
virtualization capabilities of the Cisco ACE, and simplified upgrades through the
Cisco ACE licensing model
applications, and the underlying support infrastructure
Automation: Improved coordination and integration with third-party products (such
as VMware vCenter), allowing Cisco ACE to respond dynamically to changes in the
network and share network events
Performance and scale: Hardware enhancements that address the increased
scale requirements demanded by large enterprise and service provider custom-
ers
Simplification: Streamlined deployment and ongoing maintenance, including
simplified provisioning through guided setup, simplified deployment through the
virtualization capabilities of the Cisco ACE, and simplified upgrades through the
Cisco ACE licensing model
What Does Cisco AVDC Do?
The first phase of Cisco AVDC addresses application deployment in a VMware environ-
ment (Figure 1). It delivers simplified provisioning of application delivery services by
integrating Cisco ACE with VMware vCenter through the implementation of a VMware
vCenter plug-in that securely communicates with Cisco Application Networking
Manager (ANM) 3.1.
ment (Figure 1). It delivers simplified provisioning of application delivery services by
integrating Cisco ACE with VMware vCenter through the implementation of a VMware
vCenter plug-in that securely communicates with Cisco Application Networking
Manager (ANM) 3.1.
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From within VMware vCenter, using the functions integrated by the plug-in, the user can:
Deploy virtual machines as real servers into an existing server farm
Monitor application traffic flow for virtual machines through the Cisco ACE
Securely activate and suspend application traffic flows through the Cisco ACE for
the associated real servers
Monitor application traffic flow for virtual machines through the Cisco ACE
Securely activate and suspend application traffic flows through the Cisco ACE for
the associated real servers
This single-pane provisioning, application traffic monitoring, and operations manage-
ment streamlines the deployment of services and the maintenance operations for
applications and virtual machines. Organizations do not need to undertake a separate
integration or management application development project to gain these functions;
they are all part of the Cisco ANM 3.1 offering.
ment streamlines the deployment of services and the maintenance operations for
applications and virtual machines. Organizations do not need to undertake a separate
integration or management application development project to gain these functions;
they are all part of the Cisco ANM 3.1 offering.
Figure 1 Phase 1 of Cisco AVDC
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