Avi Vantage Review

Smart And Elastic Software Defined Load Balancer

One of the key features of Avi Vantage is its smart load balancer. Generally, a load balancer is used to manage the distribution of network traffic across multiple servers. It checks whether a particular server can handle requests and helps servers transmit data and information efficiently. Load balancers are very important because they can enhance the responsiveness, availability, and performance of applications.

Avi Vantage’s load balancer is designed to aid users in delivering the best user experience. It is described as a load balancer which is smart and elastic. This load balancer can be automatically configured according to predefined thresholds that trigger such auto-configuration.

The platform’s smart and elastic load balancer also allows enterprises to centrally manage and control application services. This speeds up how their administrators provision the capacity needed by their applications. From a single pane, they will be able to manage application services across multi-cloud environments.

In addition, using Avi Vantage’s load balancer is more cost-effective. This is because it is a software defined load balancer which means it can run on a standard device which is cheaper compared with the physical machines required for running hardware load balancers. When traffic increases, users simply need to add more software instances; and it doesn’t require them to add additional physical machines in order to scale up capacity. Therefore, this elastic load balancer helps organizations lower their total cost of ownership, as they no longer need to invest in expensive appliance-based hardware load balancers.

Protect Web Applications From Security Threats And Vulnerabilities

Avi Vantage delivers an intelligent web application firewall which enables users to protect their internal and public-facing web applications from common vulnerabilities. The web application firewall generates actionable security details, allowing administrators and security analysts to drill down into information such as SSL versions, ciphers used in transactions, DDoS attack data, and system health scores. It can also provide granular security insights into application traffic in real time.

Avi Vantage’s web application firewall permits the setting up of security policies that users can apply to secure web applications. They can easily customize these policies from a centralized location through the aid of its point-and-click functionality. Additionally, users can check security policies visually before they enforce them.

Provide Applications With Services Using Service Mesh

Avi Vantage has an elastic service mesh that enables enterprises and organizations to deliver services to applications that are built using container technology and microservices architecture. A service mesh is a modern way of provisioning services to applications which eliminates the need of using discrete appliances. These services include load balancing, traffic managing, routing, health monitoring, security policies, service and user authentication, and protection against intrusion and DDoS attacks. Traditionally, these services are implemented as discrete appliances, wherein one has to go to the actual appliance to get and configure a particular service. This approach is often used in provisioning services to monolithic applications.

Monolithic applications are applications that are built on an architecture wherein any updates implemented on the application require reconfiguration of the entire application. This makes it difficult to provision services for such application, as changes will affect the other parts or components of the application. Because of this, a service mesh is ideal for container and microservices based applications wherein services can be set up and deployed individually. Rather than using discrete appliances, a service mesh utilizes API to deliver the services to the applications.

With Avi Vantage’s elastic service mesh, users will be able to provide applications with network services such as load balancing, health monitoring, TLS/SSL offload, session persistence, content/URL switching, and content modification. The service mesh also collects performance metrics, transaction logs, page load times, and other critical metrics for container and microservices based applications.