Avi Load Balancer Sessions for VMware Explore 2024 Barcelona – Part One

We are nearing VMware Explore 2024 Barcelona on Nov 4-7. Discover valuable insights from our speakers on protecting against threats with our security products and managing application delivery services. Use our targeted agendas for Avi and ANS sessions to plan your schedule or check out the list we've curated below!

Ransomware Prevention and Cloud-Speed Application Delivery: Innovations in vDefend and Avi [ANSP1237BCN]

Distributed, software-defined security and load balancing are critical to deploy applications rapidly and to defend against malware and ransomware in a secure and resilient VCF private cloud. VMware vDefend and Avi Load Balancer are plug-and-play network services for VCF, delivering operational simplicity with unmatched visibility and application analytics to cloud and security admins. VMware vDefend protects your applications and data from unrelenting ransomware attacks and accelerates your journey to Zero Trust with multi-layer, defense-in-depth security. GenAI co-pilot with vDefend revolutionizes threat detection and transforms SOC operations by alleviating alert fatigue. Avi Load Balancer ensures app delivery at cloud speed with an elastic load balancer, container ingress and web application firewall. Join this session to learn about new innovations and strategic directions for vDefend and Avi to drastically buy-down cyber risk and accelerate application delivery.

Speakers:

Umesh Mahajan, General Manager, Broadcom

Stijn Vanveerdeghem, Senior Manager, Technology Product Manager, Broadcom

Enhance VMware Cloud Private Cloud with Avi Load Balancer [ANSB1173BCN]

VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is the industry leader in the software-defined private cloud solution and VMware Avi Load Balancer serves as a tightly integrated software-defined solution tailored specifically for VCF environments. Join us in this session to delve deeper into the Avi Load Balancer integration (SDDC manager and VMware Aria Automation) and discover how Avi Load Balancer enhances application visibility, security and self-service capability for VCF users across VMs and Kubernetes environments, including VMware Tanzu Application Service, ensuring comprehensive support for diverse deployment scenarios.

Speakers:

Arif Altalib, Director of Product Management, Broadcom

Lei Yang, Director of Product Marketing, Broadcom

VCF Load Balancing with Self-Service for DevOps at the Speed of Apps [ANSB1180BCN]

Automation is crucial for every product, but the true test is in creating a seamless experience that fosters its implementation. Join us for an enlightening session where we'll explore how VMware Avi Load Balancer's built-in capabilities simplify the process of automation initiation. Throughout our discussion, we'll examine industry-leading practices and toolkits from Ansible, Terraform and VMware Aria Automation (formerly VMware vRealize Automation), and explore methodologies like CI/CD and automated testing. We'll also delve into real-world case studies, revealing how Avi Load Balancer empowers customers to effortlessly tackle extensive automation tasks.

Speakers:
Nick Robbins, Technical Product Line Manager, ANS, Broadcom

Abhinav Modi, Sr Manager, Product Management, Broadcom

Deep Dive on VCF Application Troubleshooting with Avi App Analytics [ANSB1181BCN]

Efficiently troubleshooting deployments is crucial for seamless operations and productivity. Join this session to gain invaluable insights into VMware Avi Load Balancer's best practices and methodologies, exploring techniques for addressing troubleshooting and capacity management challenges, optimizing resource allocation, and ensuring reliability and scalability. The session provides a comprehensive guide for enhancing deployment management and operational efficiency. We will also unveil a conversion tool to smooth the transition from legacy load balancers.

Speakers:

Vijayendra Singh, Product Manager, Broadcom

Roberto Casula, Worldwide Avi Solutions Architect, Broadcom

Customer Journey into VCF Automation (vRA) with Transition from Native NSX LB to Avi [ANSB1133BCN]

In this session, we will cover a unique scenario of an industry-leading transportation customer, where all their IaaS infrastructure is running on VMware Cloud Foundation, managed by VMware Aria Automation and using VMware NSX-T as their load balancer for their applications. Additionally, we'll cover their pursuit of migrating to VMware Avi Load Balancer while maintaining full management capabilities, incurring zero downtime, and future-proofing their deployments to prepare them to take full advantage of the AVI Load Balancer features. The session will not only cover the high-level design, but it will also give a hard and deep look under the hood to understand the ins and outs of every step of the migration efforts.

Speakers:

Arif Altalib, Director of Product Management, Broadcom

Nick Robbins, Technical Product Line Manager, ANS, Broadcom

Secure VCF Kubernetes Workloads with Avi Ingress and Gateway API [ANSB1179BCN]

Visibility is the best security. See how VMware Avi Load Balancer's Avi Kubernetes Operator (AKO) and Avi Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Operator (AMKO) can secure your container workloads in any Kubernetes environment, including VMware Tanzu, Tanzu Application Platform (TAP) and RedHat OpenShift. Providing best-in-class analytics and visibility along with security allows you to protect your containers. In the session, we're introducing GA Gateway API to future-proof your environments

Speakers:

Chris Grice, Technical Product Manager, Broadcom

Animesh Dixit, Technical Product Manager, Broadcom

GenAI-Powered Insights in Avi Load Balancer: A Journey into Next-Gen Observability [INVB1174BCN]

Strategically positioned at the core of the data center, the VMware Avi Load Balancer boasts best-in-class analytics, providing a rich dataset that is perfectly poised for GenAI-driven enhancements. These enhancements significantly boost observability and operational intelligence. This session will demonstrate how GenAI acts as a change agent, delivering real-time insights by predicting issues, automating configurations, and optimizing resources. Experience firsthand our advanced natural language interface that allows direct interaction with your data. For example, you can ask it to "show me the applications with issues," or "create a config with WAF enabled," or "write an Ansible script to automate my workflow." Join us to explore how these cutting-edge capabilities can revolutionize your approach to application management.

Speakers:

Arif Altalib, Director of Product Management, Broadcom

Power User: Avi Datascript Tips and Tricks [CODEC1155BCN]

Simplify application delivery and load balancing via data plane manipulation. VMware Avi Load Balancer's Datascript enables network engineers to solve complex problems easily with a little bit of scripting. Explore when to script, when not to, how to import scripts from other vendors, and shine light on some of the more interesting corners of this powerful language.

Speaker:

Nicolas Bayle, Broadcom

Power User: Avi Observability and Analytics [CODE1154BCN]

Solve complex application and network issues with readily available analytics in the VMware Avi Load Balancer. Agentless, effortless visibility to rapidly resolve common and complex issues. This session will explore problem resolution from the perspective of a network engineer in an application centric world. The workshop will show the difference between data and information, methods to triage network versus application issues, utilizing analytics for proactive resource planning and integrating Avi insights into third party monitoring tools.

Speaker:

Nicolas Bayle, Broadcom

Deploy, Configure, Secure and Troubleshoot Your Cloud Native App on VMware Cloud Foundation [ANST1145BCN]

This session will describe how to leverage the integration between VMware vSphere, VMware NSX, Antrea, and VMware Avi to help your developers to deploy, secure and troubleshoot their cloud native applications in a fast pace. We will review: guest cluster creation using VMware Cloud Foundation Automation; Antrea and AKO configuration tuning AntreaConfig and Avi Kubernetes Operator CRDs; app deployment, including load balancing, visibility and analytics; and Day 2 operations, including scaling, troubleshooting and upgrading. Join us to become cloud native VMware full-stack hero.

Speaker:

Nicolas Bayle, Networking & Security Senior Technologist, Broadcom

Meet the Expert: Kubernetes Ingress and Load Balancing for Container Workloads [ANSM1500BCN]

Come learn about best practices and architectures for Kubernetes ingress, bring your questions on load balancing Kubernetes workloads at L4 and L7

Speaker:

Chris Grice, Technical Product Manager, Broadcom

Meet the Expert: VCF and Advanced Use Cases [ANSM1563BCN]

Ask me anything regarding Load balancing solutions in VCF, Aria Automation (previously vRA), TAS (previously Pivotal Cloud Foundry) additionally covering WAF, GSLB use cases.

Speaker:

Arif Altalib, Director of Product Management, Broadcom

Please explore Part 2 and Part 3 of this blog as we get closer to the event for more information.

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