Link Optimization Solution

Document

6/3/15
Best-In-Class Performance

Outstanding Value

5000+ Enterprise Customers

Current Network and Requirement Analysis

Current Network
One ISP connectivity at a time with its public IP range for accessing Internet.
User access the Internet via firewall
Chat Applications are latency sensitive
Firewall in single external mode (one ISP at a time)

Lupin Requirements for Wan Resiliency

Build Redundancy for the exiting Wan (internet link) infrastructure

Load balancing between two or more links if required in future
Outbound load balancing (all business traffic must go through all
ISP links equally)
Inbound loadbalancing (all incoming traffic must go through all ISP
links equally)
Automated failover for the traffic in case of a link failure
Link health check status reporting
Link utilization statistics
DNS feature for resolving the inbound host resolution request based on
link status for inbound application access

Best-In-Class Performance

Outstanding Value

5000+ Enterprise Customers

Current Setup
Link1

Link2

Link3&4

DC Mumbai
Public Switch

WEB/App

DMZ

Intranet

Server Farm

Database

Best-In-Class Performance

Outstanding Value

5000+ Enterprise Customers

sed Solution Architecture for Link Optimization

Internet1/2

Internet3/4

DC Mumbai

WEB/App

DMZ

Array
Link
controller
1600 In
Cluster

Server Farm

Database

Best-In-Class Performance

Outstanding Value

5000+ Enterprise Customers

Routing

1) Gateway defined on Array for both the ISP.

2) Firewall Gateway :- IP address of the Array
appliance
3) All user traffic to be passed through all ISP
links through Array
4) If any fails then it will automatically failover
to another available link
5) For Incoming traffic Array Link Load Balancer
appliance will act
as a Authoritative DNS server to resolved
actual
A record
Outstanding Value
Best-In-Class Performance
5000+ Enterprise Customers

Link Load Balancer performing session based

load balancing Outbound Loadbalancing

Internet

ISP 1

ISP 2

Link Load
Balancer

Session
based load
balancing

Internal User

Best-In-Class Performance

Outstanding Value

5000+ Enterprise Customers

Link Load Balancer automates traffic

redirection
for a failed Link
Internet

ISP 1

ISP 2

Link Load
Balancer

Health down
for ISP 1

Internal User

Best-In-Class Performance

Outstanding Value

5000+ Enterprise Customers

Overview Smart DNS

Disaster Recovery
SmartDNSawareserverorlinkhealth
(ApplicationAvailability)information
acrosslargegeographicareas.Ifone
linkfails,SDNSwillnotdispatchnew
traffictothefailedlink.

User

Internet
nk
Li

DC

nk
Li

DR

Servers
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Servers
Outstanding Value

5000+ Enterprise Customers

Inbound Traffic Flow Details for Link

Load Balancer
Reply for
www.site.com
IP = a.a.a.a or/and
b.b.b.b.b
Local name server NS1 or
www.site.com NS2

NS1

Redirected to LLB Smart

DNS
Access to Internet
DNS
NS2

Network 1
a.a.a.x

Link Load
Balancer

Web
Server
www.site.c
om

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Network 2
b.b.b.x

Smart DNS from Link Load

Balancer host www.site.com:
a.a.a.a for network 1
b.b.b.b for network 2

Outstanding Value

5000+ Enterprise Customers

DNS resolution automates traffic redirection

for a
failed Link

Reply for
www.site.com
IP = b.b.b.b.b

NS1 on ISP 1
times out , DNS
request sent to
NS2 on ISP 2

Local name server NS1 or

www.site.com NS2

ISP 1

ISP 1
a.a.a.x

Link Load
Balancer

ISP 2

for com not

.b
ply te.
Re w.si .b.b
b.b
ww
=
IP .a.ac
a.a ISP 2
b.b.b.x

Health down
for ISP 1

Smart DNS from Link Load

Balancer host www.site.com:
a.a.a.a for network 1
b.b.b.b for network 2

Web
Server
www.site.c
om
Best-In-Class Performance

Outstanding Value

5000+ Enterprise Customers