# Key Benefits

- **27% productivity boost for DevOps** with self-service and automation
- **43% reduction in TCO** through on-demand auto scaling
- **90% faster provisioning and deployment**

## What’s Included

A single platform that provides:

- Zero touch Kubernetes ingress with Gateway API support
- Web application firewall (WAF)
- Plug-and-play integration with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)
- L4-L7 load balancing
- TLS performance acceleration with Intel Quick Assist Technology (QAT)
- Global server load balancing (GSLB)

## One Platform for Load Balancing, Application Security, Container Ingress and Analytics

A plug-and-play, fast-to-deploy, easy-to-use load balancing solution is critical for all applications (virtualized or container-based) across on-premises and cloud environments. Legacy hardware load balancers lack the elasticity, flexibility, and simplicity needed to deliver applications quickly, securely and reliably.

## Plug-and-Play with VMware Cloud Foundation

VMware Avi Load Balancer (Avi) is available as a plug-and-play solution seamlessly integrated with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), supporting the vision of a unified private cloud experience. Avi automates lifecycle management for virtual machines and containers alike. This integration delivers industry-leading application visibility, accelerating troubleshooting and providing rich telemetry to application owners, DevOps teams, and VCF cloud administrators.

## Software-Defined Platform Architecture

Avi follows a software-defined architecture that separates the central control plane (Controller) from the distributed data plane (Service Engines). Avi has 100% REST APIs, making it fully automatable and self-service with the CI/CD pipeline for application delivery. Avi auto scales on-demand and auto heals with a resilient fabric.

## Local and Global Load Balancing

**Key Features**

- Point-and-click simplicity for security policies with central control
- Elastic scale with high performing, load based automatic scale-out architecture
- Granular security insights on traffic flows and rule matches for precise policies
- Protects applications from DDoS attacks and OWASP Top 10 threats

## Kubernetes Ingress Services

Avi provides a unified, software-defined ingress solution for Kubernetes, optimized for VMware Kubernetes Service (VKS) on VCF. Avi offers a consolidated fabric that integrates L4–L7 load balancing, GSLB, WAF, and DNS/IPAM into a single platform. Key benefits include plug-and-play integration via the Avi Kubernetes Operator (AKO)

## Real-time Application Insights

Avi accelerates troubleshooting by delivering end-to-end visibility, AI-driven insights, and real-time configuration context through an intuitive, unified dashboard. This enables IT teams to rapidly pinpoint root causes, resolve issues faster, and minimize downtime.

## Avi Benefits at a Glance

### Agility from Automated Provisioning and Self-Service
- Automated virtual service provisioning with per-app load balancing services
- Full automation with REST APIs to support faster application rollout

### Lower Cost with Simplified Operations
- Elastic load balancing and just-right-size capacity without overprovisioning
- Flexible, subscription-based licensing model that eliminates static capacity

### Rapid Resolution in Seconds
- Near real-time visibility into network transactions to troubleshoot quickly

## VMware Integrations

| vCenter | Google Cloud VMware Engine | VCF Automation(Aria or vRealize Automation) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| VMware NSX | Oracle Cloud VMware Service | VCF Automation Orchestrator(Aria Automation Orchestrator) |
| VMware Cloud on AWS | vSphere Kubernetes Service(VKS) | VCF Operations(Aria or vRealize Operations) |
| VMware Cloud Foundation(VCF) | VMware Horizon | VCF Network Operations(Aria Operations for Networks) |
| Azure VMware Solution | VCF Automation Multi-tenancy(VMware vCloud Director) | VCF Operations Log management(Aria Operations for Logs) |

## Baseline Performance - Observed on a Single Service Engine

|  | Bare Metal Server(24 Core) with xl710(40Gbps) | Service Engine running as vCenter VM(6C/6GB) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Max SSL(EC) Connections | 50K per second | 12K per second |
| Max HTTP Requests | 700K per second | 185K per second |
| Max SSL throughput | 38Gbps | 10Gbps |
| Max tenants(shared data plane) | Unlimited | Unlimited |

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