How I Did it - Migrating Applications to Nutanix NC2 with F5 Distributed Cloud Secure Multicloud Networking

Many enterprises face challenges with scaling and migrating applications. This includes maintaining a consistent security policy and end user experience while applications are migrating between public clouds, colocation facilities, and private data centers, as well as between virtualization platforms.

Hello and welcome to another installment of “How I Did it”. In this edition, we will explore how F5 Distributed Cloud Services (XC) enables seamless application extension and migration from an on-premises environment to Nutanix NC2 clusters.

Demonstration Overview

This video demo included below provides a walkthrough illustrating how an organization can extend and migrate their application footprint from an on-premises deployment to a cloud-based solution without affecting availability or end-user experience.

F5 Distributed Cloud Customer Edge (XC CE)

The F5 Distributed Cloud (XC) CE (F5 XC Customer Edge) is a networking device that operates at the customer's edge, acting as a secure entry point to the F5 XC network fabric provided by F5 Networks. This device is designed to optimize and secure application delivery, and it integrates with cloud and data center networks, providing advanced traffic management and security features.

The local customer edge site establishes redundant connectivity to the F5 XC global backbone and once configured and registered, the F5 distributed cloud application delivery and security services are effectively extended to the local datacenter.

Nutanix

Nutanix is a cloud computing company that provides a hyper-converged infrastructure platform combining compute, storage, and networking into a single, scalable solution. It simplifies data center management and allows for seamless integration between on-premises and cloud environments.

A central component of Nutanix is the Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV). AHV is a native hypervisor integrated into the Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure, designed to provide efficient virtualization without the need for third-party hypervisors.

Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Nutanix NC2 allows organizations to extend their Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure to public cloud environments like AWS and Azure, providing a consistent operating experience across hybrid clouds. This enables seamless workload migration, unified management, and disaster recovery across on-premises and cloud deployments.

Nutanix Community Edition (CE)

The demonstration environment makes use of Nutanix Community Edition (CE) for the on-premises platform. Nutanix CE is a free, full-featured version of Nutanix's hyper-converged infrastructure software that allows users to explore and test its capabilities in a non-production environment. It provides the same features as the enterprise version, enabling users to learn about Nutanix solutions and experiment with their applications.